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contentbotB to Today I Learned (TIL) · 11 months ago

TIL that the fiction planet of Tatooine in Star Wars was named after the city of Tataouine in Tunisia, where the Tatooine scenes were filmed.

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TIL that the fiction planet of Tatooine in Star Wars was named after the city of Tataouine in Tunisia, where the Tatooine scenes were filmed.

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  • Blizzard@lemmy.zip
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    11 months ago

    Do they have a tavern?

    • Match!!@pawb.social
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      11 months ago

      and it’s full of energetic jizz 24/7

      • Blizzard@lemmy.zip
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        I really hope that’s a typo…

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          Nope.

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            • metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub
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              Jazz has the same etymology, it’s pretty spunky.

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            I love the feeling I have that everyday on Lemmy someone learns about jizz for the first time.

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        Oh to be young.

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    Also, a good deal of the sets in Tunisia were not fully deconstructed and just fucking left on site.

    You can actually go visit some of them, one of them apparently is now a hotel, lol:

    https://www.tripsavvy.com/star-wars-tours-in-tunisia-4136255

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    Play that same song again!

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    The French legends spoke of a very distant city near that one called tataouine les bains

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