Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 03, 2010

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Leven Brown (Edinburgh, UK), Ray Carroll (Galway, Ireland), Don Lennox (Lanarkshire, UK), Livar Nysted (Faroe Islands), broke a 114-year-old record, crossing the Atlantic ocean in a rowboat in 43 days, 21 hours and 26 minutes from June 17 to July 31, 2010! Gobekli Tepe, a hilltop sanctuary in Southeastern Turkey- was built more than 11,000 years ago and predates the dawn of agriculture! 17 different African countries all gained their independence in 1960! Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia and Togo.