26Avatar
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 TB of RAM and 3 PB of network area storage.
27. Precordial catch syndrome is a condition where you get random harmless stabbing pains in the chest.
28. The belief that using a cell phone at a gas station can cause a fire or explosion is a common urban legend. It has never happened anywhere in the world. Experts believe it to be impossible as no-one has been able to successfully create a fire or explosion by using a cell phone while fueling a car.
29. In 2012, a 9-year-old boy named Brendan Haas decided he wanted to help the families of fallen US soldiers. He started a Facebook page and eventually traded up to $900 worth of Disney gift certificates, airfare, and hotel credits. He then gave the trip to a 2-year-old girl named Liberty Hope who had lost her father in Afghanistan.
30. Hollywood occasionally sees a phenomenon called Twin Films in which two films with the same or very similar plots are produced or released at the same time by two different film studios. Some popular examples include Finding Nemo/Shark Tale, Olympus has Fallen/White House down, Churchill/Darkest Hour, The Prestige/The Illusionist.
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31Solitaire
1 in 400 solitaire hands is totally unplayable, meaning "no cards can be moved to the foundations even at the start of the game."
32. Aki Ra is a former Khmer Rouge conscripted child soldier who has devoted his life to removing landmines in Cambodia and to caring for young landmine victims. Since 1992, he has personally removed and destroyed as many as 50,000 landmines, and is the founder of the Cambodian Landmine Museum.
33. Ivan Kharchenko was named a Hero of the Soviet Union and awarded an Order of Lenin and Gold Star for defusing more than 26,000 explosives during the battles of Stalingrad and Kiev. He continued his job until 1956, disarming 16,000 more munitions along the way, finally retiring in 1964.
34. In the original airing of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” Rudolph visited the island of Misfit Toys and promised to help them, but never actually did. Tons of children wrote to Rankin-Bass, concerned for the toys, and got the company to make another scene showing the toys had been saved.
35. 40 real squirrels were trained to crack nuts for Charlie & the Chocolate Factory instead of using CGI.
