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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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VMKpG TIL London Underground workers fought management red tape with a 'piss strike,' meaning they followed safety rules so exactly that workers going to the toilet one after the other essentially shut down any work being done.
R5Vga TIL - from 1929-31, balloons were released at the end of the Macy’s parade and the public bring them back to claim $100. This ended when one got caught in an airplane propellor when a pilot tried to catch one
oBP1L TIL- In 1968, During the Height of the Civil Rights Struggle in the U.S., Mr. Rogers Shared a Wading Pool with the Police Officer on His Show, a Black Man, and Later Shared a Towell and Dried His Feet For Him a Revolutionary Act at the Time
5Vyar TIL that FL once produced nearly 100 percent of all citrus grown in the U.S, but following two deep freezes in the 1890s, Florida’s citrus industry never fully recovered and was replaced by California. CA now produces 79 percent of all citrus in the U.S, while Florida produces less than 17 percent.
wLG57 TIL That Wild Bil Hickok and his family were very anti-slavery. Hickok’s father moved his family from Vermont to Maine to Homer (now Troy Grove), Illinois. There the family’s small farm served as a stop on the Underground Railroad.