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TIL the tongue of a blue whale weighs as much as an elephant.

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NKw1 TIL one of the animators from Robot Chicken and PES uses a modified Nintendo Power Glove to help him animate. Its sooo ‘bad’ that it even has a fist bump sound effect for when he has to meet with the director.
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