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Amazing but true factoid #1
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Ok; here's a amazing-but-true factoid for all you...er, factoidophiles out there
What country (after Thailand) has the largest number of transsexuals and sex-change operations?
Right answer gets a bottle of flat Tesco's own brand cola (opened, of course) and a statue made entirely from belly button fluff.
The answer is quite literally the last country you would expect. |
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Amazing Fact #3
Indeed
During his lifetime, he led Venezuela, Colombia (including Panama at the time), Ecuador, Peru (together with Don José de San Martín), and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire. Admirers claim that he helped lay the foundations for democracy in much of Latin America.
He is seen as the godfather of South America and Bolivia was named in his honour
LincolnJay, I demand a recount! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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That's all stuff he is renowned for but not the thing no-one else has done to this day.
(There was also generals Jose de San Martin and Bernardo o'Higgins among others) |
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Amazing but true factoid #4: in what year was the last execution by guillotine in France?
Right answer gets this bag of stale licourice allsorts, the only ones left being those horrible twisty ones that everybody hates, and half a postcard |
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"Amazing but true factoid #4: in what year was the last execution by guillotine in France?
Right answer gets this bag of stale licourice allsorts, the only ones left being those horrible twisty ones that everybody hates, and half a postcard"
Is it one of those naughty seaside postcards  |
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"I fucking Ran  well I never saw that coming, I thought they'd be hung out to dry with their strict laws"
It's how they explain away the gay in a lot of cases - "you're not gay, you're really a woman, sex change!" |
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"I fucking Ran well I never saw that coming, I thought they'd be hung out to dry with their strict laws
It's how they explain away the gay in a lot of cases - "you're not gay, you're really a woman, sex change!""
Fucking hell |
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"I fucking Ran well I never saw that coming, I thought they'd be hung out to dry with their strict laws
It's how they explain away the gay in a lot of cases - "you're not gay, you're really a woman, sex change!"
Fucking hell"
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"I fucking Ran well I never saw that coming, I thought they'd be hung out to dry with their strict laws"
as a matter of fact Ayatollah Khomeneni issued a fatwa in support of sex-change operations after a letter from an iranian transsexual activist.
Weird; but true
Funny how they can be progressive in some respects but not others. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I fucking Ran well I never saw that coming, I thought they'd be hung out to dry with their strict laws
as a matter of fact Ayatollah Khomeneni issued a fatwa in support of sex-change operations after a letter from an iranian transsexual activist.
Weird; but true
At the risk of derailing this trivia thread ...does this work in reverse ? , would that woman have been OK watching volleyball is she was wearing y-fronts ?
Funny how they can be progressive in some respects but not others."
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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Weird but true factoid number 5:
What-unexpected- country did King George VI send a letter of condolence to on the death of their Head of State near the end of World War 2?
Right answer gets a warm can of tizer that's been dropped several times and has gone out of date. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Italy or the US or Germany or Japan
Scratch the US that leaves
Italy or Germany or Japan
Don't think the emperor died till recently so Italy or Germany.
Can't be old Adolf so that leaves
Mussolini |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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Don't think the emperor died till recently
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1989, but Britain was at war with Japan in 1945 so he wouldn't have sent the letter even if Hirohito died then.
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Can't be old Adolf so that leaves
Mussolini "
-Mussolini was only ever Head of Government (Prime Minister) under King Victor Emmanuel III, Italy's Head of State at the time. Italy switched sides in 1943 when the King sacked Mussolini, but il Duce headed an German puppet regime called the Italian Social Republic but as Britain didn't recognise the government King George wasn't going to be sending any condolence letters. |
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"I'd say Iran,
I live in Iraq and they are pretty much being pushed across the boarder, that's how many of them there are! "
Nope, but the allies got rid of the Shah of Iran at the time (because he was pally with Hitler) and replaced him with his son (the one who was overthrown in the revolution in 1979 by Ayatollah Khomenei) during WW2 though. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'd say Iran,
I live in Iraq and they are pretty much being pushed across the boarder, that's how many of them there are!
Nope, but the allies got rid of the Shah of Iran at the time (because he was pally with Hitler) and replaced him with his son (the one who was overthrown in the revolution in 1979 by Ayatollah Khomenei) during WW2 though."
I always had my suspicions....... |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Wait a minute...
Argentina or Brazil
Brazil were fascists and I think a few of them Nazis escaped there"
Nope, both Argentina and Brazil were on the Allied side (though Argentina admittedly only right at the end of the war). |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Can't be Canada
Can't be Russia
China? Noo
Korea? Nah
Australia or new Zealand well they wouldn't be big news would they.
Not Hungary
Not Brazil or Argentina not Italy.
Wait a minute obviously obvious.
A German monarch. Got to be |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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Nope, the German monarchy had been overthrown in 1918.
Germany did have several Presidents afterwards though. And who was President of Germany towards the end of the war? |
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The answer is...Hitler.
Britain may have been at war with Germany at the time, but George VI was (like his daughter is today) not just King of Britain. He was also (quite separately) King of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland, South Africa and Ireland. All of the above countries joined the Allies with the exception of Ireland, which remained neutral and hence never severed diplomatic ties with Germany. As George VI thus remained King of Ireland til after the end of the war, and as a constitutional monarch is required to be both politically neutral and to represent the country of which they are head, he was constitutionally required to send a letter of condolence to the German people and government on behalf of the Irish people and government on the death of Hitler. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Here's another factoid...surreal in nature
Buy your own Salvador Dali.......
Spend around 50p in a sweet shop and buy a Chupa Chups Lollipop
Dali did the logo
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