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TIL Jetfire, of Transformers Fame, is an Atheist. From his tfwiki article: “After all, is not science just the pursuit of truth? And truth, he maintains, walks hand-in-hand with liberty.”

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MMlK TIL- Seth MacFarlane was a writer for Dexter’s Laboratory and Johnny Bravo
b9Vg7 TIL American actor Martin Lawrence was born in Germany. He was named after Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He has a lifetime ban from Saturday Night Live.
9YrPp TIL of Jolabokaflod, a Christmas Eve tradition in Iceland where friends and family get together to exchange books and then they all read them together while eating chocolate and drinking cocoa.
78GBb TIL Jagadish Chandra Bose found that plants were visibly reactive to all manner of stimuli: flashes of light, changes in temperature, plucking, pricking, screaming. Plants became numbed by drugs and drunk from alcohol.
R6e8 TIL bees use hexagon shapes for their honeycomb structure in order to create equal sized partitions with the least amount of material possible. This is known as the honeycomb conjecture.