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TIL that prior to making Finding Nemo, Pixar's in-house art team was required to take Marine Biology, Oceanography, Ichthyology, and Scuba Diving Classes in order to get the look & feel of the characters and their world just right.

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rN6lx TIL during Apollo 11 NASA suspected that the pressure from the exhaust of the LM engine being reflected by the lunar surface might make it explode, and Neil Armstrong was meant to shut it down as soon as the contact light went off, but he forgot.
vPad7 TIL for the series finale, the creator of a beloved Mexican TV children’s show wanted to have the main character ran over by a car and killed.
YpooZ TIL that the tobacco industry managed to shift blame of people falling asleep with lit cigarettes away from their products onto beds and sofas being too flammable getting the government to force flame retardants into all sorts of home products that now are linked to cancer etc.
M74OK TIL that surgeon August Bier tested a form of anesthesia that involved injecting cocaine directly into the spine on his own assistant, and to test its effectiveness, he stuck a needle in his leg, hit him in the shins with a hammer, pulled out his pubic hair, and even squeezed his testicles.
6oOY TIL that India has proposed to link 67 rivers to prevent floods and droughts. By doing so, an area equivalent to that of Germany will be irrigated.