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TIL 'Sponegbob Squarepants' original name was going to be 'SpongeBoy', and the series called 'SpongeBoy Ahoy!' both of these were changed as the name was already trademarked.

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oBo6K TIL that females ejaculate a semen-like substance during sex.
5d4R TIL Canadian botanist Charles Budd Robinson was killed due to his bad language skill. When he asked a village boy to chop down a coconut (kelapa), he mistakenly asked the boy to chop down a head (kepala). The villagers mistook him for a headhunter and killed him.
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