Trivia
According to a 2008 television programme, presented by Griff Rhys Jones, the eternal flame on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris “has only been extinguished once, by a drunken Mexican football supporter on the night that France beat Brazil here in Paris,” most likely referring to the this FIFA World Cup Final.
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