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TIL In 2012 Mathematician Vi Hart sent an open letter to Nickelodeon proving Spongebob’s Pineapple was geometrically impossible. Pineapple designer Kenny Pittenger responded on his blog (in video description) by posting a new “mathematically correct” design. This new design is now used on the show.

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