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TIL: Avatar (2009 Film) required 4,000 servers, 35,000 CPU Cores, 104 TB of RAM, and 3 PB of Network Area Storage in a 10,000 sq ft farm to render the movies effects

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XbWE TIL in 2008 Ronda Rousey became the first American woman to medal in Judo at the Olympics
nWx8B TIL of the Bayside Canadian Railway, a 200-foot-long railroad to nowhere in New Brunswick, Canada. Due to a loophole in the Jones Act, cargo between American ports is permitted to be shipped on foreign-built vessels if at some point it also uses a Canadian railroad.
A6p4 TIL Research shows the best way to get over somebody is to get under somebody: “Less time between a break-up and a new relationship generally predicts greater well-being, higher self-esteem, and more respect for a new partner.”
DQBOe TIL that there is a clear iPhone
olJr TIL that during WWII, British intelligence leaked falsified information implying that V-2 rockets were overshooting London by 10 to 20 miles, which made the Germans undershoot and miss London for the rest of the war.