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So you’ve seen those location-tagging numbers on maps and GPS devices before, but do you actually know what they mean?

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yJO8 TIL while filming Dumb and Dumber, Jim Carrey stayed in the Stanley Hotel (where The Shining was filmed) for a night and requested to be in room 237. About three hours after he went to sleep, he came running out of the room and left the hotel. To this day, he hasn’t told anybody why.