Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 17, 1996

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The Taiyo Chemical Company of Japan has developed paper that can resist temperatures of 1500°C! Bertha Van der Merwe of South Africa once went 11 days, 18 hours, 55 minutes without sleeping! "The oldest trees on Earth" The maidenhair tree which grows in Zeijiang, China, first appeared on Earth 60 million years ago during the Jurassic period!