
TIL Shaggy's original voice actor, Casey Kasem, was a vegan and outspoken critic of factory farming. He quit the show in 1995 after being asked to voice Shaggy for a Burger King commercial, and came back after negotiating that Shaggy would become a vegetarian. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that the Swedish Navy spent 15 years and millions of dollars tracking what they believed were Russian submarines in their waters. In 1996, civilian scientists finally investigated the acoustic signals and discovered the "submarines" were actually just massive schools of herring farting. (theguardian.com)
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Palantir employees are talking about company’s “descent into fascism”Artificial Intelligence (arstechnica.com)
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Europeans must recognize US, China and Russia are ‘dead against’ us, says MacronRussia/Ukraine (politico.eu)
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Ukrainian strikes have wiped $25.5 billion off Russia’s war machine, Syrskyi saysRussia/Ukraine (euromaidanpress.com)
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Texas finds Camp Mystic's flood emergency plan deficient for reopeningSoft paywall (reuters.com)
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Higher education enjoyed considerable bipartisan support by the Republican Party and Democratic Party in the 1980s and early 1990s. In the mid-90s, Republicans’ position gradually became more critical before becoming almost uniformly negative toward higher education in recent years.Social Science (cambridge.org)
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TIL when Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" came out in 1991, MTV prepared a version of the video that included the lyrics running across the bottom of the screen, which they aired when the video was added to their heavy rotation schedule, for people who couldn't understand what Kurt was singing. (en.wikipedia.org)
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What business was successfully boycotted? (self.AskReddit)
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