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TIL the lyrics of the closing song from the movie 'Gladiator' are in a made-up language

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nePBG TIL 450 Tasmanian opium farmers supply approximately 50% of the world's opium used in painkillers
E1OPV TIL NASA was sold faulty rocket parts for almost 20 years. An Oregon-based company falsified aluminum certification tests for nearly two decades.
M7A7B TIL the Byzantine Emperor had an elite personal guard (The Varangians) composed of Norsemen, Rus, and Anglo-Saxons who emigrated to Constantinople.
worMW TIL The First Crisis Hotline Was Started in 1953 in London by a British Priest Named Chad Varah
VBlZ TIL there are only 210 people in the armed forces of Iceland