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Collecting stamps was a nearly lifelong passion for Franklin D. Roosevelt. When FDR contracted polio in 1921, he turned to his stamps as a distraction during his bedridden days. He once said, "I owe my life to my hobbies—especially stamp collecting."

The concept of Pokémon stems from the hobby of insect collecting, a popular pastime which Pokémon executive director Satoshi Tajiri-Oniwa enjoyed as a child.

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1. Bosch also happened to have a hobby-level interest in astronomy, and collected meteorites.

2. Satoshi Tajiri was inspired to create the Pokemon franchise by his childhood hobby of collecting insects.

3. The hobby of collecting sugar packets is called "sucrology"

4. Pokemon creator Satoshi Tajiri started his company Game Freak as a magazine before transitioning it into a video game company. Satoshi's childhood insect collecting hobby became his inspiration for the game Pokemon.

5. The concept of the Pokémon universe stems from the hobby of insect collecting, a popular pastime which Pokémon executive director Satoshi Tajiri enjoyed as a child

6. Between 1956 and 1981, Tressa Prisbrey built a 'village' made out of recycled items and discards from the local landfill to store her 17,000 pencils she had collected as a hobby. Eventually it became a tourist attraction until it closed in 1984.

7. Satoshi Tajiri, the founder of Game Freak, used to collect caterpillars and watched them turn into butterflies as a kid. This childhood hobby helped inspire him later in life to create the popular Nintendo series, Pokemon.

8. In the 19th century people left cards with their photographs with friends and family. Photo visiting cards became so widespread, that collecting celebrities' cards became a popular hobby.

9. The concept of the Pokémon universe, in both the video games and the general fictional world of Pokémon, stems from the hobby of insect collecting, a popular pastime which Pokémon executive director Satoshi Tajiri enjoyed as a child.

10. The original inspiration for the Pokémon franchise is based on a Japaneses hobby of collecting insects.

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The inventor of Pokemon based it on his hobby of collecting local bugs and insects as a kid.