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TIL Stephen Hillenburg was inspired to create 'SpongeBob SquarePants' while listening to Ween's album 'The Mollusk' while tripping on acid in 1997.

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XEox8 TIL new buildings in Hong Kong must have 1.6 female toilets for every one male toilet
ZpKwB TIL that the city of Philadelphia, which was where Washington had to live when he was president, had laws in place that said any slave that lived there for more than 6 months would be freed. So, Washington set up a rotational schedule exchanging his slaves between states to prevent their freedom.
OpG6 TIL that Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and author of the Holocaust memoir “Night”, started the Elie Wiesel Foundation For Humanity. The charity lost nearly $16 million in the Madoff Ponzi Scheme. Wiesel and his wife also lost their entire personal life savings.
Gb71 TIL an 18th century man faked his own death to see how people would react. When his wife didn’t cry he caned her.
4k185 TIL during World War II, the British Secret Service created a special playing card deck for POWs that, when soaked in water, revealed hidden escape routes and maps. When dampened, the cards would separate to expose complete maps of prison camps and surrounding territories.