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

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nWZAB TIL researches from the University of Copenhagen are using machine learning to decode acoustic vocal patterns of ungulate animals in order to understand and translate their emotions in real time
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