Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 14, 1996

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Ripley's Believe It or Not! In 1969, Don Cooke, a retired US engineer, wore a 17 1/2-inch-long beard made from over 21,000 live Italian bees! The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM) is the only country in the world that is so small it has a street address! SMOM 68 VIA CONDOTTI ROME Miss Fanny Shields of Baltimore, Md., owned a cat named "Napoleon" that could predict the weather with such accuracy that its predictions were regularly published in the daily newspapers!