Post * P1klG — Curious Curator

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TIL China made a magnet that produces a magnetic field 800k times stronger than Earth's magnetic field.

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Bnob TIL that most statues have small penises because it was earlier believed that having a small package meant that the person was more “intellectual and rational.”

JYLvv TIL that when making the movie Avatar, they would film the motion capture from all angles. After the actors are rendered, the director would walk onto the set with a "virtual camera", which would allow him to film as if he were in the CG environment. TL;DR, they filmed using virtual reality.

bxZ0 TIL Ethan Couch, the ‘Affluenza’ teen from DFW, not only killed 4 people in a drunken wreck, but permanently paralyzed his 18 y/o friend Sergio Molina, who now needs around-the-clock care and can only communicate by blinking.

e06lk TIL that a brother-sister duo in Iceland would have different surnames. As a surname; the boy gets his father's first name with a '-son' in the end, the girl also gets the father's first name but with a '-dottir' in the end. Ultimately they end up having different surnames.

5YrKP TIL the original founding population of Native Americans was about 250 people. At their peak, there were about 18 million in North America and 40 million from Alaska to Argentina. It’s estimated that the population dropped by almost 90% within a few centuries after the arrival of the Europeans.