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TIL That Stephen Hillenburg creator of Spongebob, based the "French Narrator" from the show on Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who was a French scientist, naval officer, explorer and conservationist. Jacques was one of Hillenburg's idols, and his son Jean made a guest appearance on the Spongebob movie.

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