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  1. Taffy

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    Fried Mars Bar on chips ......504 descriptions.
     
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    Muammar Gaddafi once owned 5% of Juventus
     
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    Taffy C'mon you reds.

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    Am sure his son played in Italy though not for Juve.
     
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    Only 8 non English songs have made it to the peak of the Billboard top 100
     
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    Define your terms.

    Billboard has a Japanese Chart, as well as French, Spanish, etc., etc.

    Falco had the only German song in the Greatest Of All Time Hot 100 but the title was in English.

    How many instrumentals do you think there were that got to Number One in the US Billboard Top 100?
     
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    The Hot 100, which is the main chart

    The 8 songs are

    "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)" – Domenico Modugno (Italian – August 18, 1958 for five non-consecutive weeks)
    "Sukiyaki" – Kyu Sakamoto (Japanese – June 15, 1963 for three weeks)
    "Dominique" – The Singing Nun (French – December 7, 1963 for four weeks)
    "Rock Me Amadeus" – Falco (English/German – March 29, 1986 for three weeks)
    "La Bamba" – Los Lobos (Spanish – August 29, 1987 for three weeks)
    "Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)" – Los del Río (English/Spanish – August 3, 1996 for fourteen weeks)
    "Despacito" – Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber (English/Spanish – May 27, 2017 for sixteen weeks)
    "Life Goes On" – BTS (Korean/English – December 5, 2020 for one week)
     
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    What!!!!!!

    No Los Ketchup with er The Ketchup song in 2002.


    Joe Le Taxi by Vanessa Paradis in 1987.
     
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    54th and N/A respetcively
     
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    Playoffs in football are nothing new.

    They were used in the 1892-93 season between the last placed team in Division 1 and the best team in Division 2.
     
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    Gil Scott-Heron was the son of the first black person to play for Celtic.
     
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    Yep
     
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    21 year old youtuberThogden is the youngest dof of a top flight european team, Manchester...
    ...62, who recently finished 7th in Gibraltar's top league
     
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    Which one is it? Was it "Rock me Amadeus"? (too lazy to google ;) )

    btw: Falco was German speaking but no German, he was Austrian. Unlike the "man with the ridiculous moustache" he never applied for German citizenship ;). His dead was 25 years ago last month.
     
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    Correct.
     
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    There are 67.1 million tracks sitting on music streaming services today that, in the 2022 calendar year, attracted 10 or fewer streams apiece, globally. I'm sure I listened to a few of them.

    That’s 42% of the entire catalog of tracks available on worldwide music streaming services.
     
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    Watching Tipping Point on ITV and Ben Shephard is wearing a quality looking shirt. I'd love to know which one it is. Looks beautiful.
     
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