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TIL In the Korean version of SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick Star's name is "뚱이" which simply translates to "fatty".

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11WX TIL that enough technology exists right now to create a solar-powered colony on the moon.
BgEke TIL about the "Scaptia beyonceae", an Australian horsefly named after Beyoncé
yQrjp TIL during filming of the 90s cop show "Homicide: Life on the Street," a shoplifting suspect surrendered to actors portraying detectives as they rehearsed a scene.
j6kla TIL The Chinese Ming Dynasty deployed a heavy amount of Guns & Cannons, bombarding and smoking the entire battlefield against the Mongols, they fled without their spare Horses. According to an observer, they avoided battle several days later, "fearing that the guns had arrived again." (1414)
KYwOQ TIL there’s a 7-story rock in a desert near Joshua Tree in California that 1) is maybe the largest freestanding boulder in the world, 2) once had a 24ft by 36ft apartment dug underneath it, and 3) hosted 20 years of Flying Saucer Conventions starting in the 1950s