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TIL Frogger was actually going to be called Highway Crossing Frog

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BxKW TIL that Patrick Star and Gary of Spongebob are actually first cousins.
XEQ6Q TIL North Preston, Nova Scotia is the oldest and largest indigenous Black community in Canada.
X7Vr TIL that an unfinished skyscraper in Venezuela has been taken over by squatters and is now home to 2500 people
b9DY9 TIL the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel is both a bridge and a tunnel. Considered one of the 7 wonders of modern engineering, it was completed in 1964 and is 23 miles long.