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TIL Dick Van Dyke’s hobby is doing CGI animation, and he even made special effects for an episode of Diagnosis Murder in 1997.

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lkEK TIL of the Angulo brothers. Six brothers who were locked in their apartment by their father for 14 years. They found a passion in watching, and often reenacting, over 10,000 movies in their free time.
YpK8A TIL Charles Joseph Minard was French Civil engineer and pioneer of info-graphics. Minard is famous for his flow graphs, one notably showing the trade of French wine. Information designer Edward Tufte said his map of the French invasion of Russia, "may well be the best statistical graphic ever drawn"
9wNrG TIL Leonard Nimoy refused to join Star Trek the Animated Series without George Takai and Nichelle Nichols claiming they were proof of ethic diversity in the 23rd century.
BgGVk TIL that male bees and wasps contain half the amount of genetic information that female bees/wasps have, as males hatch from unfertilised eggs. Egg laying females can choose whether or not to fertilise an egg from her 'spermatheca' to create male or female offspring.
v1nPL TIL that origami as we know it today was due to Akira Yoshizawa who, in his own estimation created more than 50,000 models of which only a few hundred were presented as diagrams in his 18 books; he lived in poverty from 1937 until 1954, when he published his first monograph and got his first exhibit