Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 05, 2005

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Competitors in a diving contest in Helibrown, Germany win by creating the largest splash and from hiding discomfort after a painful dive! Nematomorph hairworms infect the brains of grasshoppers, causing them to leap into water, which the worms need to breed, because of the grasshoppers to drown! On July 5, 2005 Albert Parker, a 73-year-old farmer in Yorkshire, England, was swept up by a tornado and put down unharmed 30 feet away!