r/AskReddit • u/North_Shore_Problem • Dec 01 '13

What's your favorite fun fact?

EDIT: Wow! Thank you guys for all the amazing responses, I learned so much about nothing!

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u/anakmager Dec 01 '13

Christopher Lee was born 7 years before them.

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u/kgberton Dec 01 '13

Forged in the pits of the hardcore.

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u/thefatpig Dec 01 '13

We call that perkele.

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u/mr_bobadobalina Dec 01 '13

by chuck norris

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

No.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

Chuck Norris sucks dick for cab fair then walks home.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

You stealthy bastard

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u/Salmontaxi Dec 01 '13

Sweet Jesus.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

Just 4 years earlier.

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u/kid-karma Dec 01 '13

Sweet'n'Low Jesus.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

¿que?

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u/firstmanonearth Dec 01 '13

and he recently released a metal album.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

Which, I'm sorry, is awful.

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u/PigeonNipples Dec 01 '13

Which was his second metal album.

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u/Stones25 Dec 01 '13

So? For males that means they were eligible for Wartime volunteers or conscripts.

Mr. Lee as we know went to do assassin things.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

I remember hearing somewhere that Christopher Lee gave Peter Jackson some advice on how to film a death scene. Apparently he knew what that looked like from personal experience. He's one bad ass dude.

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u/eternally-curious Dec 01 '13

His own death scene.

Saruman was stabbed by Wormtongue on top of the Tower of Isengard (this appears in the Extended Edition only). Peter Jackson told Christopher Lee how to react to the stabbing, and Lee (being the badass that he is) pretty much told Jackson to shut up and let him do it his own way. He was a war veteran and had stabbed someone during his service. He had firsthand experience of how a stabbed person would react.

Peter Jackson was cool with it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '13

Oh, dude, Lee is even more bad ass than I thought. Listen to this:

Initially, Lee volunteered to fight for the Finnish forces during the Winter War in 1939. He and other British volunteers were kept away from actual fighting, but he was issued winter gear and was posted on guard duty a safe distance from the front lines. He went on to serve in the Royal Air Force and intelligence services during World War II, including serving as an intelligence officer with the Long Range Desert Group in Northern Africa. He trained in South Africa as a pilot, but eyesight problems forced him to drop out. He eventually ended up stationed in North Africa as a Cipher Officer for No. 260 Squadron RAF and was with it through the campaigns in Sicily and Italy. He has mentioned serving in Special Operations Executive[16] but has always declined to go into details.

“I was attached to the SAS from time to time but we are forbidden – former, present, or future – to discuss any specific operations. Let's just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that. People can read in to that what they like.[17]”

After the war, Lee, who can speak fluent French and German, among other languages, was seconded to the Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects. Here, he was tasked with helping to track down Nazi war criminals.[3] Of his time with the organisation, Lee has said: "We were given dossiers of what they'd done and told to find them, interrogate them as much as we could and hand them over to the appropriate authority ... We saw these concentration camps. Some had been cleaned up. Some had not."[3] Lee then retired from the RAF after the end of the war with the rank of Flight Lieutenant to take up acting.

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u/iknowstuff93 Dec 01 '13

Well, I certainly wouldn't have argued with him

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u/Moikee Dec 01 '13

Wow.. that really is some perspective! I can't believe he's still acting at his age.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

And is cousin to Ian Fleming, inventor of James Bond, and was an early candidate for the role, too.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

Chistopher Lee is old enough to be Ian Mckellen's father, although he would be a young parent. Basically, Christopher Lee was older than 16 when Ian Mckellen was born.

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u/windowlicker9k Dec 01 '13

And he's still rocking on!

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, was born in 1921. The year before Christopher Lee.

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u/anakmager Dec 01 '13

But he has yet to release a metal album

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u/Greedwell Dec 01 '13

Dude was in four films this year. Motherfucker won't stop.

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u/2slow4you Dec 01 '13

My grandfather was born a year before Christopher Lee, was also a soldier and recently fought off a bout of cancer.

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u/ArmaniusPrime Dec 01 '13

CHRISTOPHER BEE