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TIL that all of the shots of the little island above Bikini Bottom in Spongebob Squarepants were filmed in Genndy Tartakovsky's pool

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PYyQe TIL that during the tablecloth scene from the Grinch, Jim Carrey was supposed to pull everything off of the table, but he accidentally pulled the tablecloth clean off without knocking anything over, so he went back and improvised knocking everything down.
PwML TIL that Ronald Reagan signed an executive order prohibiting assassinations
jNB0E TIL three NASA astronauts once staged a "mutiny" in space during Apollo 7 by turning off radio communications for several hours in protest over working conditions. They were never allowed in space again.
EVJ7 TIL a young child was separated from his mother, and was consequently adopted by an australian family. He tracked her down as an adult by matching hazy memories with landmarks on Google Earth
6ErE7 TIL there are ~2 million more people living in California, than there are in all of Canada.