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TIL: In Tunisia you can book an overnight stay in Luke Skywalker’s boyhood home for only $10

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4kB1N TIL Benjamin Bolger overcame dyslexia to eventually earn 17 degrees as of March 2022. After special education programs didn't help him, he began being home-schooled in 4th grade. He also left Yale Law at 19 when he struggled again, but enrolled at Oxford after additional training for his dyslexia.
GA9gQ TIL Werner Sombart, the economist who invented the term ‘late stage Capitalism’ was a supporter of the Nazis, and praised them in his book ‘Deutscher Sozialismus’
5QJP TIL that Citizen once made a series of watches powered only by the temperature difference between the wearers skin and the ambient air.
78grx TIL that the busiest day of the year for plumbers is the day after Thanksgiving and that they call it Brown Friday.
kvY5 TIL that in the 1805 Constitution of Haiti, only blacks could be citizens, and whites were prohibited from owning land.