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Ripley's Believe It or Not by John Graziano

Although snowflakes are transparent, a pile of snow is white because the flakes collectively reflect most of the light that shines on them! On Nov. 30, 2010, Joseph Guiso of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, married his dog in an elaborate wedding ceremony in front of 30 invited guests! Joseph-Desire Mobutu, president of Zaire (1965-1997), changed his name to Mobutu Sese Seko Koko Ngbendu wa za banga- which means: "The all-powerful warrior, who, because of endurance and an inflexible will to win, will go from conquest to conquest leaving fire in his wake"!

Ripley's Believe It or Not by John Graziano

During World War II, scientists from the UK, US and Canada experiented with a bomb that shot out lethal darts! Pabst, a boxer-mix who won the 2009 world's ugliest dog competition at the Sonoma-Marin fair in California, was the first dof in nearly a decade to win that wasn't a Chinese crested pedigree! Until July 1, 2009, it was illegal to collect rainwater in the state of Colorado, USA!

Ripley's Believe It or Not by John Graziano

Josue LaMadrid of California, USA, has a pet dog with 4 upper canine fangs! A power outage in 2009 left the town of Quipeio, Angola, in the dark for 2 months! Ademir Jorge Goncalves of Parana, Brazil, was mistakenly identified as a victim of a car crash, and shocked his family when he showed up alive at his own funeral on Nov. 2, 2009!

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Ripley's Believe It or Not by John Graziano

Oo-la-law! Paris has a long-standing law banning women from wearing pants except when riding horses or bicycles! Sabi, a bomb-sniffing dog for the Australian special forces in Afghanistan, was lost during a firefight in September 2008, and wandered the countryside until an American soldier found her 14 months later! The Kingdom of the Dwarves, a theme park in Kunming, Yunnan, China, employs people that are only under 4 feet, 3 inches tall as entertainers!

Ripley's Believe It or Not by John Graziano

Natalie Lampard's lost dog, Muffy, was found in July 2009, 9 years after she wandered from Lampard's home in Brisbane, Australia! Coromoto, an ice cream shop in Merida, Venezuela, features 860 different flavors of ice cream- selling about 60 flavors on any given day! Lucky Man! William Treble of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, collected 1,056 4-leaf clovers in a single day!

Ripley's Believe It or Not by John Graziano

Japanese engineer Takuo Toda is a world record paper-airplane builder. His thrown airplanes have stayed aloft for as long as 26.1 seconds! Nuke my ride! Thousands of now-radioactive vehicles used in the 1986 rescue and clean-up of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, sit abandoned as totally off-limits to any humans! "Gentle Giant" Caryn Weber of Casselton, N.D., USA, owns a landseer Newfoundland dog that measures 7 feet from nose to tail!

Ripley's Believe It or Not by John Graziano

The February 2010 Chilean Earthquake moved the city of Concepcion about 10 feet to the west! Dog thinks, "Oops!" On Jan. 30, 2010, a 53-year-old hunter in Los Banos, Calif., USA, was shot and injured by his dog when it stepped on his loaded shot gun!" Coconut water can be used medically as a sterile, intravenous hydration fluid!

Ripley's Believe It or Not by John Graziano

For decades, Bangladesh and India disputed ownership of New Moore Island, but rising sea levels have resolved the disagreement by submerging the island underwater! The dog has good taste! George Kaufmann's pet dog, Soli, swallowed a $20,000 diamond while at a jewelry shop in Rockville, Md., USA in January 2010! Xiao Wei, a 16-year-old from Mishazi, Jilin, China, had a knife stabbed through his head that went in one side and out the other- he survived!

Ripley's Believe It or Not by John Graziano

Big or small? elephants can swim! The sultan of Brunei spends as much as $25,000 for a haircut! A Utah railway company worker rescued a stray dog that had been run over by a train twice on the same day- April 8, 2010!

Ripley's Believe It or Not by John Graziano

Only about 1/3 of India's population has access to modern sanitation- but nearly half have a mobile phone! Some species of geckos carry sacs of calcium-enriched fluid in their necks to make eggshells! The loyal "lady" When 81-year-old Parley Nichols of Hartville, Ohio, USA, died in a field whie taking a walk in April 2010, his dog, Lady, stayed by him for 7 days until they were discovered.
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