Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 22, 1998

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Believe It or Not! Before the invention of rubber erasers, lead pencil lines were erased using pieces of bread! Augusta Bunge of Wisconsin, age 110, in 1989 became a great-great-great-great grandmother! The first escalator in Britain, installed in Harrods Department Store in London, had a clerk who waited at the top with a glass of brandy for each customer! (1898)