User blog comment:Cosmobo/Top 10 facts spongebob/@comment-24438956-20150117190905

You got facts 1 and 2 wrong.

SpongeBoy Ahoy was not a taken name, but "SpongeBoy" was taken for a sponge brand.

Hillenburg did not come up with the idea whilst writing a Rocko's Modern Life episode, but rather from his educational comic strip that he didn't release called "Intertidal Zone" about sea life, with one of the characters being "Bob the Sponge."

As for #6, everyone knows that.

And as for #8, that's because SpongeBob and Patrick are sea creatures, and they need water to prevent shriveling up. It makes perfect sense...