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TIL Tatooine from Star Wars is a real town in Tunisia spelled Tataouine and famous for its cave dwellings

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epPML TIL that on March 2008, a group of emo teens battled a group of punk teens in Mexico City until the Hare Krishna intervened an calmed everyone down
aLGA TIL During WW II Britain stopped selling food to Ireland in order to persuade them to drop neutrality and enter the war. Ireland responded by cutting off all exports of Guinness. The supplying of food was resumed.
JPVj TIL that Mary Babnik Brown was chosen to donate her hair (which had never been treated with heat or chemicals) to become the crosshairs on Norden bombsights during WWII.
DD1D TIL Steven Spielberg is the creator of the Medal of Honor video game series
woGlo TIL that honeybees can recognize human faces. Conventional wisdom holds that the ability to recognize faces requires a complex mammalian brain. But studies of paper wasps and honeybees have shown that some small-brained insects can manage this feat, too.