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TIL final battle scene in "The Last Jedi" was filmed on Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat in Bolivia. By some estimates more than 10 billion tons of salt cover the region today and it's home to more than 50 percent of the world's lithium reserves

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BgwLW TIL: That Princess Diana was buried holding a set of rosary beads that were gifted to her by Mother Teresa, who died just 6 days after Diana at the age of 87.
JYNl TIL Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
51wP TIL “Contagious shooting” is the name for the phenomenon when one person in a group shoots, the entire group starts shooting (even if they don’t know why they’re shooting)
mweE TIL that the creator of the Soviet Union’s Olympic Hockey program, Anatoli Tarasov, began coaching without every watching a single game of hockey. He created game strategy and training regimens based off the Olympic hockey rule book.
rRRxo TIL the famous Wayne Gretzky quote about "skating to where the puck is going to be, not where it's been" is actually misattributed to him. It was said by his father Walter Gretzky.