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TIL the arabic word for Hell, "Jahannam", is directly derived from Gehenna, a valley in Jerusalem.

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8e7AK TIL the longest open missing persons case in the US is that of Marvin Clark, who disappeared on October 30, 1926 while traveling from Tigard to Portland, Oregon. The case is still open today.
KYvwR TIL that LBJ took his oath of office on a Roman Catholic missal from JFK's desk despite not being Catholic; he mistook the missal for a Bible.
woGy7 TIL in 1987, a robbery suspect fled and hid in a movie theater. But he was so fascinated by the movie he was watching that he didn't notice the other patrons were evacuated before he was taken into custody. The movie was Robocop
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rNk6d TIL that in Speed 2 the scene where the ship crashes into the island was made with a non-animated partial boat crashing into the real island, and was the most expensive stunt ever filmed at $25M in 1997.