St Pierre facts
While investigating facts about St Pierre, I found out little known, but curios details like:
France owns a small island off the coast of Newfoundland that is entirely comprised of rock (St. Pierre). The streets are carved into the rock, and instead of cemeteries, inhabitants carved tombs into the island which are there to this day.
When Mount Pelée erupted in 1902, the blast killed all but one of St. Pierre's thirty thousand citizens. He only survived because he was underground, having been thrown into a dungeon for starting a bar fight.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 8 of the best facts about St Pierre I managed to collect.
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St. Paul was originally called Pig's Eye, named after a French-Canadian whiskey trader named Pierre "Pig's Eye" Parrant.
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Ludger Sylbaris who in 1902 was one of the few survivors of the Mt. Pelee eruption at St. Pierre, because he had been imprisoned underground the day before for public drunkenness and wounding a man with a cutlass.
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Canadian Georges St Pierre holds the record for most takedowns and most wins in any class in the UFC
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There's still a French Colony in North America. St. Pierre et Miquelon, off the coast of Newfoundland, is the last remnant of the former colonial empire New France.
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"TIL Street Fighter Sagat was based of real life Sagat, and Georges St Pierre's is in his lineage"
