Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 23, 2009

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There's got to be a better way!! In August 2009, the state of Kerala, India, began offering a 1 million rupee ($20,000) cash prize for a machine that can efficiently harbor it a tree's coconuts from the ground! The first automatic teller machines in 1967 did not accept plastic cards- only bank checks containing radioactive carbon! Arctic explorers Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Karsten Anderson ate nothing but meat, fat and organs for the entire year of 1928 as part of a scientific study of human dietary needs!