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Little Star

(17,055 posts)
Mon Dec 19, 2011, 09:57 PM Dec 2011

Kim Jong Il dead: 17 bizarre details about the Dear Leader's life

1. His official biography claimed his birth was foretold by a swallow and led to the appearance of a double rainbow along with the emergence of a new star in space. He went on to spread the myth among his subjects that his mood could control the weather.

2. You may not be aware of this, but Kim Jong-Il was the world's greatest golfer... According to an official government handout marking his 62nd birthday, Kim celebrated by demolishing a par 72 course in just 34 strokes, managing a world record five holes-in-one on the way. To top it all, the superhuman round was apparently the first time he had actually played the sport.

3. In 2006, German giant rabbit breeder Karl Szmolinsky was contacted by Pyongyang, asking if they could buy 12 of the bumper bunnies. Having seen the massive rabbits in a newspaper, Kim planned to set up a breeding programme to boost meat production in the famine-hit country. Despite Szmolinsky warning the rabbits would make the situation worse - they only yield about 15 pounds of meat and have a huge appetite for carrots and potatoes - Kim insisted the animals should still be sent. Szmolinsky claims once the animals arrived Kim ate them himself as part of his birthday celebrations.

4. In 2004, a former chef for Kim revealed the North Korean leader employed staff to make sure the grains of rice served to him were absolutely uniform in size and colour


Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/12/19/kim-jong-il-dead-17-bizarre-details-about-the-dear-leader-s-life-115875-23646337/#ixzz1h2GynU2W

If even half of this is true he was one strange bird.

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Kim Jong Il dead: 17 bizarre details about the Dear Leader's life (Original Post) Little Star Dec 2011 OP
Learned this from KO tonight... MrMickeysMom Dec 2011 #1
Double rainbow?.. Dead_Parrot Dec 2011 #2
I think they just took a Chuck Norris list and changed the name. Common Sense Party Dec 2011 #3

MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)
1. Learned this from KO tonight...
Tue Dec 20, 2011, 12:24 AM
Dec 2011

This guy apparently never took a shit.


No wonder he was so full of it!

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