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TIL: before the release of the 1989 film “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”, the famous Al-Khazneh in Jordan was visited by only a few thousand tourists a year. Now, the site is filled with almost a million tourists annually, and has several shops around it relating to Indiana Jones.

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