Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 13, 1996

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Jean Holland, age 80, of Toronto, Ont., Canada, has swum over 1,000 miles since breaking her hip five years ago! A 71-year-old man from Bucharest, Romania, after suffering a heart attack and being declared dead by doctors, revived 3 days later inside his coffin! Uichi Noda, of Japan, in 24 years, wrote 1,307 letters to his wife, Mitsu, that contained 5 million characters and were later published in 25 volumes, filling 12,404 pages!