Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 11, 2009
Transcript:
Hagfish create a thick coat of mucus to protect their skin because they have no scales to do it for them! The crater of Ijen volcano on East Java, Indonesia, includes a half mile Lake filled with sulfuric acid! Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte awarded a prize of 12,000 francs to the inventor of canning, because it allowed his soldiers to carry preserve food for months at a time.
He was average height for the time