Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 28, 2001

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The Fittest Man in the World Joe Decker of Maryland cycled 100 miles, ran, rowed and hiked 10 miles, power walked 5 miles, kayaked 6 miles, swam 2 miles, paced 10 miles on a treadmill, performed 3000 ab crunches, 1000 leg lifts, 1100 push-ups and lifted a total of 278,540 lbs. and only 24 hours! Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a fiberglass like material that automatically repairs itself when it tears or cracks! Alert Pilot Jeffrey Stirnemann survived without serious injury after crashing his two-seater Cessna plane into a sign on a highway in Tennessee that read: Be alert, arrive unhurt!