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TIL Casey Kasem, famous radio host and original voice of Shaggy from "Scooby Doo! Where Are You!", wanted to be buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Instead, his wife had him interred in an unmarked grave at Oslo Western Civil Cemetery in Oslo, Norway.

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DQ5ge TIL: When Pokémon was first released in the U.S. in 1998, the Mayor of Topeka, Kansas officially renamed the city to "ToPikachu". This was repeated by the Mayor in 2018 with the release of the "Pokemon: Let's Go" games.
oVAK TIL that in addition to having mild winters, Greece has a period of about two weeks around the end of January in which the climate is like summer’s. It’s been going on every year and for at least 3000 years!
dDvG8 TIL that in 2006 the Manually Self-Operated Butt-Kicking Machine was patented to advance the art and expand the science of butt-kicking technologies.
DpoY TIL that in the US, SWAT callouts increased from 3,000 in 1980 to over 50,000 in 2006 – and that an estimated 80% of those callouts were to serve warrants on non-violent suspects.
Z8YDQ TIL in 1958 A chemical operator at Los Alamos was killed after plutonium in a mixing tank went supercritical, exposing him to over 30Gy of hard radiation. After 24 hours his bone marrow contained no red blood cells