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TIL that the world famous Krabby Patty is actually a veggie burger

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MevXa TIL that every year, a regatta is held in Alice Springs. Due to the lack of water in Central Australia, contestants have to carry bottomless "boats" trough a dried-out river. When the river did carry water in 1993, the regatta became "the only regatta ever cancelled because of wet weather".
QJx76 TIL The name "orangutan" is derived from the Malay and Indonesian words orang, meaning "person", and hutan, meaning "forest", thus "person of the forest".
oZPE TIL in 1967, protesters requested a permit to levitate the Pentagon 300 feet in the air, through songs and chants, to exorcise it of its evil and end the Vietnam War. Authorities agreed to only 3 feet.
j6LaE TIL: Jennifer Jason Leigh's Father was Vic Morrow, who was accidentally killed while filming The Twilight Zone Movie.
9YmeB TIL Forensic lip-readers are usually deaf or from deaf families, and use lipreading in their daily lives to a greater extent than people with normal hearing outwith a deaf community. In the UK, a landmark case established the admissibility of lipreading evidence.