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TIL that a scene in the movie "American Me" was so offensive to the Mexican Mafia that they later murdered 3 of the film's consultants.

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E1nxV TIL the word 'jehovah’ is a latinised derivative of God's given name 'YHWH’, this translated abbreviation stemming from 4 Hebrew consonants called the ‘tetragrammaton’ considered too sacred to utter and whose letters were replaced by latin-speaking Christian scholars.
9y7D TIL that there is a custom made map for Doom II called NUTS3.WAD. It contains 12263 monsters - one of the highest amount of enemies ever put in a FPS.
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