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TIL There is a Penis Museum in the center of Reykjavik
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TIL Kidney beans can be as much as five times more toxic if cooked at 80 °C (175 °F) than if eaten raw
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TIL, a "holocaust" was a sacrificial religious ceremony practiced in ancient Judaism, wherein an animal was sacrificed to god, being entirely consumed by fire. The word is from a Greek translation of the Old Testament.
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TIL during the filming of Avatar, the lead visual effects company, Weta Digital, hired 900 people to work on the movie at one time. To render Avatar, Weta made use of 4,000 Hewlett-Packard servers with 35,000 processor cores with 104 terabytes of RAM and three petabytes of network area storage!
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TIL that when Meryl Streep auditioned for the lead role of 1976’s “King Kong,” producer Dino De Laurentiis commented to his son in Italian: “She’s ugly. Why did you bring me this thing?” He was shocked when Streep replied to the insult in fluent Italian.
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TIL that during WW2 the British entertained the idea of building an aircraft carrier out of ice and wood pulp in order to fight German U-boats. They scrapped the idea after realizing they could just make airplanes fly farther instead. One admiral was accidentally shot during the development process.