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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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WoPY TIL that in 2009 Eric Schmidt, Google’s Chairman, said “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place” when confronted about the search engine’s privacy policies.
jN5Wp TIL that a horse named Galileo has semen thats worth $49,000,000 per gallon. He has created dozens of winning race horses and one of his children also has very expensive semen.
N70B1 TIL the creators of "South Park," Trey Parker and Matt Stone, co-created one of the most successful Broadway musicals, "The Book of Mormon." Their production won a Tony award for "Best Musical", a Grammy for "Best Musical Theater Album", and has grossed over $500 million dollars.
oBbJL TIL that after the popularity of superhero comics waned in the late 40s, Captain America comics were rebranded as “Captain America: Commie Smasher” from 1953-1954
KYBJa TIL Emily Rosa at age nine became the youngest person to have a research paper published in a peer reviewed medical journal. She devised a single-blind protocol to determine if therapeutic touch practitioners could actually detect "human energy fields." She found they were right only 44% of the time