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TIL that the area of Tunisia Lucas used for the Star Wars Tatooine scenes was actually called "Tataouine" IRL.

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69oW TIL Mentos ran an ad campaign in Singapore urging citizens to have sex on the night of their nation’s independence day to help boost the country’s low birth-rate.
dDynd TIL that The battle on ice, known as the 'ice massacre', is the only instance in history of a full-scale battle on a frozen lake, resulting in the Teutonic knights being dramatically defeated when the ice gave way beneath them under the weight of their armour
Z8GjG TIL about the two-week long lion-hyena war over disputed territory in Ethiopia during 1999, where lions killed 35 hyenas and hyenas managed to kill six lions, with the lions eventually taking over the territory.
b087 TIL Pope Francis is the first Jesuit Pope, the first Pope from the America’s, the first Pope from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first Non-European Pope in 1,272 years. I think he is also the first Pope to be a nightclub bouncer.
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