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TIL Shaggy the musician’s given name is Orville…. Shaggy from Scooby Doo’s given name is Norville.

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b98w9 TIL that during the 1983 invasion of Grenada, the american invading force lacked maps of their own and instead used maps intended for tourists
R7Qo6 TIL: The decline in hunters threatens how U.S. pays for conservation. The user-play, user-pay funding system for wildlife conservation has been emulated around the world. It has been incredibly successful at restoring the populations of North American game animals, some of which were once endangered
960Q TIL In North Korea’s version of basketball, a dunk counts as three, you get an extra point on a three pointer that doesn’t touch the rim, eight if you score in the last three seconds, and -1 for a missed free throw
X0MMj TIL that when the Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911 Pablo Picasso and his friends were initially considered prime suspects
Y7KDG TIL the corpse of an astronaut monkey is preserved at Smithsonian Air and Space Museum with its hand placed over its heart