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TIL Mr. Lawrence, the voice of Plankton, worked as a layout assistant on Ren and Stimpy, and oversaw some of the grotesquely detailed closeup oil paintings made famous on the show, a style that was later imitated on Sponegebob.

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lGAa TIL of ‘Code of the Secret Service’, a movie which lead actor Ronald Reagan called “the worst picture I ever made.” The film inspired a man named Jerry Sparr to join the Secret Service, who in 1981, saved President Ronald Reagan from an assassination attempt
4Xxj6 TIL Astronomer Thomas Harriot observed the Sun directly through a telescope and left nearly 200 drawings of sunspots from the period 1610–1612. To protect his eyes, he took advantage of mist and fog to dim the Sun's brightness
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