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Reebok is much older than most people realize (founded in 1895), and its running shoes were worn by athletes in the 1924 Summer Olympic Games, made famous in the film "Chariots of Fire."
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Vangelis, the composer who composed the theme for Chariots of Fire, The Blade Runner, and much more, have no knowledge on how to read musical notes.
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The movie Chariots of Fire was slightly altered when it was released in the US. To avoid the G rating, which would affect box office sales, a scene in the movie was replaced with one in which the main characters encountered two war veterans who uttered 'shit', thus getting the PG rating.
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Vangelis, the composer who wrote the scores for the movies Blade Runner, Chariots of Fire, and the theme to Carl Sagan's Cosmos can barely read a note of music.
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In 1982, VANGELIS (The famous composer behind Chariots of Fire, Blade Runner, Cosmos etc) composed the evening news opening theme for the Greek national TV channel. The track is still in use today
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Hephaestus was capable of turning himself into fire, and created all of the weapons used by the gods of Olympus, including their armour, chariots, spears, arrows, tridents etc...
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Eric Liddell, Scottish Olympic runner famously portrayed in Chariots of Fire, went to China to be a christian missionary during the 1930's. He was imprisoned by the Japanese during WWII and died in an internment camp five months before the war ended.
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The Oscar-winning film 'Chariots of Fire' originally earned a G rating by the MPAA . To avoid being thought of as a children's movie, the editors added a new scene for the US release that included obscenities and so earned a PG rating instead.
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Christian artist Rich Mullins had a song which the lyrics "I want to go out like Elijah, with a whirlwind to fuel my chariot of fire." He died in a car crash a year later.
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Actor Brad Davis committed assisted suicide in 1991 while dying from AIDS. He was best known for his roles in "Midnight Express" and "Chariots of Fire".
