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TIL the SpongeBob pitch to Nickelodeon was so good the executives had to step outside from laughter.

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m1paM TIL An initial name considered for Safari was iBrowse. This was truly a missed trick.
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7lOx TIL that we have more than the 5 basic senses (hearing, feeling, seeing, smelling, and tasting). Other senses include magentoception, the ability to detect magnetic fields, as well as chronoception, the sense of time passing.
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