Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 14, 2009
Transcript:
The number of prison inmates in the USA is more than 2.3 million- higher than the entire population of Latvia! Whoa! Taxes A medium sized business in the Democratic Republic of Congo would pay out nearly 230% of its profits if it paid all required taxes according to The World Bank. In 1958 Mao Zedong ordered the elimination of sparrows in China, which succeeded in decimating the sparrow population, but caused swarms of crop eating locusts to Flores without their main predators- sparrows!