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TIL - Saint Catharine's Monastery on the Sinai Peninsula is the world's oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery, along with the oldest continuously operating library in the world

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GAMRG TIL as Spielberg was filming Jurassic Park's climatic scene as originally scripted (with the velociraptors defeated by Dr. Alan Grant & John Hammond), he had the last-minute idea to bring back the T-Rex for the climax. As an "off-the-cuff thing", the physical effects had to be setup in about 24 hrs.
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