Regarding gladiators, one of the most crazy statistics I ever read was that about 500K people died in the Colosseum while it was in use. That was probably in t

Regarding gladiators, one of the most crazy statistics I ever read was that about 500K people died in the Colosseum while it was in use. That was probably in the span of a couple of centuries, but that's still a steady stream of dead folks.