Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 04, 2002

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Harold Saber of Maplewood, NJ, seriously ill with diabetes, heart problems and high blood pressure, drove himself to a funeral home and died in the parking lot! Scientists from Ohio State University have discovered the fossil of a 300 million-year-old giant cockroach measuring 9 cm.- twice the size of an average American roach! Believe It or Not! In Arequipa, Peru, textile factory workers sort alpaca wool into five qualities of fineness by touch only, and are able to distinguish differences of one micrometer- or one hundred thousandth of an inch- with their fingers!