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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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EPe7 TIL This saturday in America you can put nonperishable food items into your mailbox to be picked up by your postman. They will be donated to local food pantries!
nPDo TIL when 1978 TV series “Holocaust” aired in West Germany in 1979, a panel of historians would answer questions live afterwards. They ended up receiving thousands of calls from Germans saying this was the first time they heard about the Holocaust. “Holocaust” later became German ‘word of the year’.
Yp0j7 TIL Half of academic papers are never read by anyone other than their authors, peer reviewers, and journal editors
MedyV TIL that there was a small horse called Thumbelina, who was just 43 centimeters (17 inches) tall.
VB64m TIL George Lucas is married to Mellody Hobson. Of her many accolades she was chairman of Starbucks from 2021-2024, chairman of DreamWorks animation from 2004-2016, and one of the current owners of the Denver Broncos. She is African American, 25 years his junior, and they have been married since 2013