Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 16, 2004
February 14, 2004
February 17, 2004
Transcript:
Believe It or Not! In 1840, William C. Talcott of Valparaiso, Imd., Devised a phonetic spelling called the initial teaching alphabet in which the eliminated the letters K, Q and X and added others to make a 39 letter alphabet! Believe It or Not! Cricket players in Sri Lanka were ordered to stop playing during a game when a 2 foot long fish landed in the middle of a pitch after it was dropped there by an eagle!
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