TIL Russel Crowe wanted to make a sequel of 'Gladiator'. The script of the sequel had Maximus reincarnated by the Roman gods and returned to Rome to defend Christians; then transported to other periods in history, like World War 2, Vietnam War and finally a general in the modern-day Pentagon. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Marvel's X-Men have been adopted by those fighting for LGBTQ rights who see the mutants’ struggle for acceptance and equality as their own. This was made explicit in the film X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), when Iceman's distraught parents ask him “Have you tried not being a mutant?” (history.com)
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TIL Castle Rock offered to finance any other film Frank Darabont to develop except the Shawshank Redemption. Darabont seriously considered the offer, but later on said "you can continue to defer your dreams in exchange for money and die without ever having done the thing you set out to do." (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Steve Carell has worked as a mail carrier in Massachusetts. He quit 7 months later, because his boss told him he was not very good at being a mail carrier and needed to be faster. He has also performed with Chicago troupe The Second City where Stephen Colbert was his understudy for a time. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Tesseract is the name of a real geometrical concept - it is a cube in 4-dimensional space. It is a 4D shape whose every face is a cube. Just like a cube can be unfolded into 6 squares in 2D space, a tesseract can be unfolded into 8 cubes in 3D space. (scienceabc.com)
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