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TIL Spongebob’s Bikini Bottom is based on the nuclear testing on Bikini Atoll during the 40’s and 50’s. Hence, radiation makes talking sponges and starfish.

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OOj6 TIL Mr. Rogers had a jazz trio accompanying him onset, while taping the show, rather than using prerecorded, queued music.
NX098 TIL: before the 2014 movie Interstellar, black holes were depicted in media as spinning whirlpools in space, but the movie used a team of physicists to determine how a black hole would look to the human eye
16G6D TIL the concept of digital camouflage (rather than natural organic patterns) now used in most advanced militaries, was first deployed in Canada in 1996.
V0w8 TIL: Adrian Carton de Wiart fought in the Boer War, World War I & II, was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip and ear, survived a plane crash, tunneled out of a POW camp, and bit off his own fingers when a doctor wouldn’t amputate them. He later said “frankly I had enjoyed the war.”
oRN5E Today I learned about Station IX a secret British Special Operations Executive factory making special weapons and equipment during World War II