Pointless fact #316:In Rio, the football team Flamengo hurl abuse at their rivals, Fluminense, by chanting 'Rice Powder, ' at them.
This is because back in the thirties, black people weren't allowed to play footy in their league, and Fluminense got around this by sending them out to play covered with rice powder to make them appear white
or so i'm told
(This is because back in the thirties, black people weren't allowed to play footy in their league, and Fluminense got around this by sending them out to play covered with rice powder to make them appear white
or so i'm told
Jahled Three shades of black,
Fri 7 Mar 2008, 10:10,
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