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TIL that Coca-Cola is currently flavored with decocainized coca leaves

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ANLxw TIL the Brazilian voice actors for Scooby-Doo and Shaggy worked together voicing the characters for over 30 years and passed away just 3 days apart.
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ApN7 TIL that in during WWII, Cambridge professor Alfie Maddock was working late into the night, and spilled the UK’s entire supply of plutonium, 10mg, onto a wooden table. He cut a hole in the table, burned it, and managed to recover 9.5mg of it from the ashes.
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