Things You Didn't Know About George Takei

From the man's website:

• He's run five marathons!
• With the outbreak of World War II, he and his family together with 120,000 other Japanese Americans were placed behind the barbed- wire enclosures of United States internment camps. George spent most of his childhood at Camp Rohwer in the swamps of Arkansas and at wind-swept Camp Tule Lake in northern California.
• George was one of the driving forces behind the Arts in Transit program in which every Metro Rail subway station is given its own distinctive look, thereby fostering neighborhood pride.
• He carried the Olympic Flame in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Torch Relay.

In short: he is the most awesome ever.

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