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  |   FACEBOOK   |   RSS Samukeliso Sithole (Exposed January
2005)  Samukeliso Sithole Samukeliso Sithole was a rising female
star in the world of Zimbabwe athletics. The 17-year-old track-
and-field athlete had won awards at various regional athletic
events, including five gold medals at the Southern Region Youth
Championship in 2004. But in 2005 her career came to an abrupt
halt when it was revealed that she was actually a he. More→ The
Loch Ness Tooth (March 2005) March 2005: Two American students
visiting Scotland claimed to have found an enormous tooth
(possibly belonging to Nessie) lodged in the carcass of a deer
along the shore of the loch. However, (so they said) a game
warden who happened to be passing by almost immediately
confiscated the tooth from them, though not before they got a
few pictures of it. The students subsequently created a website
to publicize their find and lobby for the return of the tooth.
But animal experts identified