Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 23, 2010

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Diacetylmorphine- a highly addictive opiate drug, was first mass-produced and sold in 1898 as an over-the-counter painkiller under the brand name of 'heroin'!" Simeon the younger, also called Simeon the Stylite, a 6th-century Christian ascetic saint, spent 68 years living atop pillars in what is now Turkey! Earth says, "Whew- that was close!" Two asteroids that flew by earth on Sept. 8, 2010, coming closer than the moon- were first detected less than a week before!