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TIL SpongeBob was originally named SpongeBoy, but the legal team found that the name was already used by a pencil company (and not a mop company as many sources claim)

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VBOW0 Today I Learned who first spilled the tea. In 2737 BC it was Legendary Chinese Emperor Shennong when a few leaves from a nearby tree floated into his bowl of boiled water, changing the color and flavor. He made history, but would never know the future semantic shift of gossiping. https://www.tea.co.
WDNY TIL: Theodore Roosevelt had a chest tattoo of his family crest. He’s the only President to have one, although Andrew Jackson was rumored to have a tomahawk tattooed on his thigh.
woMo TIL Yasunori Mitsuda, the composer for Chrono Trigger, nearly died making the music for the game.
7r4xO TIL that the original proposal for the plot of the movie Anchorman was about news anchors trying to escape a mountaintop plane crash, while being stalked and killed by orangutans wielding ninja stars.
nWGYG TIL The Strauss–Howe Generational Theory. The Theory states that a crisis recurs in American history after every saeculum (85 years), which is followed by a recovery. 85 years ago was the invasion of Poland and the beginning of WW2.