Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 16, 2014
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May 17, 2014
Transcript:
Ripley's Believe It or Not! In 1886, William Kendall became the first person to swim across the Whirlpool Rapids at Niagara Falls, wearing a cork life preserver and swimming trunks. GOTTA GO! A "poronkusema" is a unit of measurement used by the Sami people of Finland -- it's the distance a reindeer can travel before it needs to urinate. The first police car, a 5,000-lb electric wagon, was introduced in Akron, Ohio, in 1899 with a top speed of 18 mph. It was scrapped in 1905.
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Templo S.U.D. over 10 years ago
I bet that squad car couldn’t even catch up to the robbers’ getaway car. No wonder it was scrapped six years later.
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr over 10 years ago
Man, those reindeer are regular!
Guilty Bystander over 10 years ago
Apparently when it came to the electric police car, they had to drop the charges.
Petemejia77 over 10 years ago
Stephen Gilberg over 10 years ago
I read that the first speeding ticket was for 12 mph.