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TIL that when Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon was criticized for wearing no. 88 (a code used by nazis), he claimed to not have known about the meaning and had only chosen it because no. 01 had been denied, which he'd wanted due to his admiration for the "Gerneral Lee" from Dukes of Hazard.

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