Star Wars Facts

'Jedi' is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in Australia.

C3PO is the first character to speak in Star Wars.

George Lucas owned 100% of Lucasfilm. When he sold it to Disney for $4.05 billion in 2012, every single dollar went straight to him. He gave almost all of it away to education — calling it "the key to the survival of the human race." He'd pledged to do it two years before the deal even existed.

In Tunisia, you can book an overnight stay in Luke Skywalker’s boyhood home for only $10.

Ming-Na Wen, who portrays The Cavalry on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., was also the voice of Mulan. And she’s 50 years old.

The Mos Eisley scenes in Star Wars were filmed in the real Tunisian town of Ajim, where locals still live among the iconic filming locations today.