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The movie Avatar takes up over one petabyte of storage space.

A petabyte is the equivalent of 500 hard drives, each with a capacity of 2 terrabytes (a terrabyte to 1,000 gigabytes!). That's the size of a 32 YEAR long mp3 file!!

The movie was shot in 3-D and rendered in one of the most powerful data centers in the world. Its computing core adds up to 40,000 processors and 104 terabytes of RAM. It would be realistic to assume that a significant portion of the film's $300 million budget went to storage space.
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A man married a pillow.

A Korean man named Lee Jin-gyu fell in love with a life-sized Japanese body pillow called a "dakimakura". The pillow has the image of a cartoon character named Fate Testarossa on it, from an anime called Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha.

The 28-year-old man takes his pillow with him everywhere and eventually got married to it. Read more about Lee in this story.

This is actually part of a broader cultural phenomenon. There is a growing subculture of men in Japan who engage in romantic relationships with pillows that have cartoons on them. People who have difficulty with romantic relationships with real (3-dimensional) people instead find themselves attracted to 2-dimensional anime characters. You can learn more about this phenomenon in this New York Times piece.

Some people suffer from a condition called "exploding head syndrome."

This strange phenomenon is extremely rare and has not been proven to be related to any known medical disorder. Individuals simply hear an extremely loud noise inside their head while they are sleeping! The sufferer senses that a loud noise or explosion has occurred nearby but realizes that it was just in their own head. This condition is not dangerous or painful, but can cause an aversion to sleep resulting in insomnia. Researchers believe the syndrome is likely caused by extreme stress or exhaustion.
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A rare psychological condition makes people want to cut off or paralyze their limbs.

Sufferers of Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) say they must constantly deal with a large gap between their own physical bodies and how they perceive them. Many choose to undergo surgery to amputate or paralyze their limbs, but oftentimes BIID sufferers are too desperate. Several have taken measures into their own hands and resorted to crushing, sawing, freezing, and even blowing their limbs off with a shotgun!

Researchers believe the condition may be related to other body image disorders such as anorexia, body dysmorphic disorder, and gender identity disorder. All of these illnesses appear merely psychological but may also be related to physical differences in the brain.
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