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TIL Bionic Commando (PS3/360) is actually a remake of an older NES game with the same name

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E7xW TIL that in 67 AD, Roman Emperor Nero was in such deep mourning over the death of his late wife Poppaea Sabina that he castrated and married a young man who bore an uncanny resemblance to her and even started calling him by his late wife’s name.
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