Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 17, 2009
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When Skylab Space Station fell to earth over Western Australia, the community of Esperance fined the United States $400 for littering! Astronomer Galileo Galilei was tried as a heretic in 1633 and sentenced to life imprisonment because he believed that the earth revolved around the sun. 54-year-old Craig Buford of Fort Worth, Texas, USA- died on Dec. 29, 2008, from complications of a gunshot wound he sustained 85 years prior!