Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 31, 2014
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Transcript:
Mighty mite! The tiny moss mite Archegozetes Longisetosus can resist 1180 times its own weight. That's like a human holding an airliner! Plovers pretend to set on nests that don't exist in order to distract predators from their real nest. In 1863, during the US Civil War, 10,000 soldiers from the Confederate Army had a giant snowball fight on the frozen Rappahannock River in Virginia.
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