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TIL Spongebob Squarepants is credited for creating wider awareness of Leif Erikson Day outside the Norwegian-American community

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QJ5GE TIL that in 1987 Matthew Broderick was driving in Ireland in a rental car when he veered onto the wrong side of the road, striking the vehicle of Anna Gallagher, 28 and her mother Margaret Doherty, 63 killing both. His punishment was an $175 fine.
oRBoR TIL that the Truman Show was originally a dark thriller which took place in a New York-style city. It took many drafts of the script to arrive at the comedy-drama that eventually made it to screen.
nb8r TIL that Häagen-Dazs’s brand name is completely nonsensical, but is meant to sound vaguely Danish: the creator “sat at the kitchen table for hours saying nonsensical words until he came up with a combination he liked. The reason he chose this method was so that the name would be unique and original”
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Zpg9G TIL that cicadas pee by ejecting water from their bodies and there’s a term called cicada rain.