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TIL that Thurop Van Orman, created and voiced title character 'The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack', took inspiration from his own misadventures as a kid like trying to live on a rattlesnake infested island and later trying to live in a Mexican jungle before resorting to eating out of dumpsters.

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