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TIL about the Mathematician Fry Lewis Richardson who discovered that it is impossible to measure the length of coastlines in a meaningful manner. This so-called Coastline Paradox later led to the creation of the field of Fractal Geometry.

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kp64 TIL Darren Aronofsky’s debut feature, Pi, was financed entirely from $100 donations from friends and family. In return, he promised to pay each donor back $150 if the film made money, and receive on-screen credit if the film lost money. On a budget of $60,000, the film grossed a total of $3,221,152.
rnm1 TIL that the Movie “Paranormal Activity” cost less than $15,000 to make but grossed over $193,000,000.
oRRNr TIL Cyrillic Alphabet was firstly used by Bulgarians.
Z8X4o TIL Theo Jansen has been creating strandbeesten, which are moving kinetic structures, sometimes wind-propelled, that resemble walking animals. All of his models are based on a system of triangles and connecting links which convert the rotation of an axle into a stepping motion of six or more legs.
wakY TIL that gorillas fart almost all the time because their diet consists almost entirely of plant matter which produces large amounts of gas when digested.