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TIL the voice of Patrick Star, Bill Fagerbakke, of Spongebob fame is a 6’ 6" three-sport athlete from high school, a star defensive lineman from college, and was acclaimed by the Juilliard School of Performing Arts as an excellent Shakespearean actor.

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e0wvk TIL when Tater Tots first hit store shelves in 1956, people did not buy them because they were very inexpensive and there was no perceived value. When the price was raised by stores, people began buying the product.
7rkgb TIL of a man that protects the world's rarest colors, some being poisonous, and some very beautiful. One of the colors is a yellow pigment originating from dried cow urine where they were only fed mango leaves.
nWpgG TIL In 1974, Richard built the world’s first 16-bit personal computer. Eric programmed the machine. A year later, Scott authored the first graphic video game for a personal computer.
a8vpZ TIL A “pneumonia front” is a unique weather phenomena to the western Lake Michigan shore where temperatures can drop 20-40+ F in less than an hour.
PYP5L TIL Carl Linnaeus' corpse is the model specimen for the human race. In 1959, taxonomist William T. Stearn officially made Linne, the founder of his discipline, the ICZN lectotype for homo sapiens, and his skeletal remains are now the benchmark for what a modern human is and looks like.