› added 2 years ago

152

TIL that George Lucas named the planet Tatooine after the region of Tunisia where he filmed those scenes - Tataouine.

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

0d6NA TIL that reduction in life expectancy due to COVID-19 was 1.9 years for men and 1.6 years for women
R71o6 TIL Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune all have ring systems
yQ5Nw TIL ‘The Mountain’ actor from Game of Thrones beat the 1,000-year-old world record for taking 5 steps with a 10-meter log that weighed 1,430 lb.
jvon TIL during the California Gold Rush, the distinct lack of women in San Fransisco caused gay culture to flourish. Men would often pay for “female impersonators” to be prostitutes.
Ydx7 TIL from 1993 to 2008, the same DNA was discovered at 40 different crime scenes in Europe, leading to the investigation of the “Phantom of Heilbronn”, which turned out to be a woman working in a cotton swab factory who inadvertently contaminated the swabs with her own DNA.