Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 05, 2008
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Transcript:
Believe it or not! The capital of Portugal was relocated to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 1808 to 1821! Modern researchers have used optical scanning to play back audio recordings scratched into lamp soot by Leon Scott de Martinville of Paris, and 1860- 17 years before Thomas Edison's first recording! The only privately owned copy of the 711-year-old Magna Carta was sold to an investment company in 2007- for more than $21 million!
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