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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.(en.wikipedia.org)

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Blizzard@lemmy.zip
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Do they have a tavern?

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Match!!@pawb.social
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and it’s full of energetic jizz 24/7

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

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DoYouNot@lemmy.world
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Oh to be young.

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sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip
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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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urda@lebowski.social
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Play that same song again!

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Noodle07@lemmy.world
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The French legends spoke of a very distant city near that one called tataouine les bains

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