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TIL that people are living in the abandoned Mos Eisley set from Star Wars

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P1pBJ TIL about Marvin Heemeyer, a man who destroyed buildings with a modified bulldozer in Granby, CO, as an act of revenge against the people who wronged him
1aMRd TIL that sun chips used to be LOUD!!!! This was due to a change to a 100% compostable bag they introduced in 2008
oB6jL TIL: Plants have to have ‘plant passports’ stamped on the side of their pots to travel overseas
e08g5 TIL when Eva Peron died at 33, her body was embalmed and put on display. After a military coup it was lost for 16 years, until it was found in Italy and returned to her husband who kept it in his dining room. Upon his death, both corpses were displayed together briefly before finally being buried.
MeVRa TIL in 2010, a Kansas State University professor went on a Twinkie diet, where he ate mainly Twinkies, Oreos, and Doritos to prove to his students that calorie counting is the important part of losing weight, not nutritional content. He lost 27 pounds in 2 months.