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

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PYrNO TIL about "The Lost Chord," a song composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1877 at the bedside of his dying brother. It was recorded onto Edison's phonograph in 1888, one of the first recordings of music ever made. The piece has endured as one of Sullivan's best-known songs as is still performed today.
4PAX TIL of a woman born with 3 fingers on her right hand. After a tragic accident, she lost her right hand and later developed a phantom limb…with 5 fingers.
DQLe TIL that Samuel L. Jackson ODed on heroin a few times so switched to coke.
npEb TIL the word “parmesan” isn’t regulated in the United States and is usually imitation cheese