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TIL the Star Wars planet Tatooine was named after an extant Tunisian city named Tataouine

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Zl6Q TIL that the Hindu god Shiva intends to destroy the universe with dance
E8jW TIL that anyone who has ever received a blood transfusion in the United Kingdom or France is permanently ineligible to donate blood in the United States.
MeXoA TIL Chris Farley hosted Saturday Night Live just two months before his death by a drug overdose in 1997. The opening skit for the episode had Farley trying to convince Lorne Michaels to let him host, telling him he was clean and sober. The skit, and his opening monologue were cut from re-runs
XwXX TIL IKEA has designed and deployed a $1000 flat-pack refugee shelter that, like the company’s famous modular furniture, is boxed up shipped with all the tools needed to construct it
mxWyE TIL In order to bolster the English navy with rope, sails, and netting, Henry VIII ordered that farmers grow 1/4 acre of hemp for every 60 acres of farmland, otherwise they’d be fined three shillings and four pence. Elizabeth I raised the fine to £5.