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TIL Nick Cave wrote a sequel for Gladiator where Maximus is resurrected to kill Jesus Christ

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rNA81 TIL Anne Frank's name is pronounced "Anna"
xV1Vb TIL that the Wensleydale Cheese Company came close to shutting down in 1990, and was only saved when Wallace, from “Wallace and Gromit,” named it his favorite brand. The show’s creator, Nick Park, didn’t even know of the company’s struggles, but after joining forces, cheese sales improved rapidly.
kJn1W TIL There is a spot in the retina where the nerves carrying all the information run out, or the blind spot. A King of France amused himself during boring sessions with courtiers by “cutting off their heads” by looking at one and watching another’s head disappear
890K TIL the longest film ever made (Modern Times Forever, 2011) has a duration of 240 hours or 10 days, and shows centuries of decay, compressed into the span of the film.
4jjX TIL that for the Merovingian dynasty (457-751 AD), the power of a king was based on the length of his hair. If a rival shaved the head of a king, then his power would be lost. The man with the longest hair in the kingdom would subsequently inherit the throne.