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TIL that the script for Gladiator 2 had Russel Crowe’s Maximus meddling with Roman gods in the afterlife, being reincarnated, defending early Christians,ultimately living forever, leading tanks in the second world war and even mucking around in the modern-day Pentagon..(but, it was rejected)

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e0VLE TIL American Indians Serve in the U.S. Military in Greater Numbers Than Any Ethnic Group and Have Since the Revolution
VMZEp TIL the Idaho legislature adopted a resolution commending the filmmakers of Napoleon Dynamite, which was filmed in the state. The resolution states that anyone voting against it were “freakin’ idiots”
pY8Yp TIL that Nazi Germany operated jet-powered bombers, and that they were the last Luftwaffe planes to fly over the UK.
Gr57 TIL that the Japanese have the world’s most negative opinion of the Chinese, and vice versa
b6maQ TIL of Gottlob Bumann, a Geman Omantic poet who hated a cetain lette of the alphabet between Q and S. He avoided it in all of the 130 poems he wote and efused to say his last name in eveyday convesation.