Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 26, 2009
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The Stannard rock lighthouse is the only structure on a large rock, 23 miles off the coast of lake superior. It was staffed only by men for 8 decades until it was automated in 1962. Rhesus monkeys at Japan's Osaka Zoo were fed so much by visitors that the primates became obese, weighing up to 3 times their normal weight! They are now on a strict weight-less regimen. Eniac, in 1946, was the world's first general purpose computer It weighed 30 tons and occupied an entire room. Its computing ability can be recreate today on a silicon chip smaller than your thumbnail!