Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 18, 2011

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Russia lose 2.5 million people from outbreaks of lice-borne typhus in 1918-1922- more than the 1.5 million Russian soldiers who died on the collective battlefields of World War I (1914-1918)! Leonardo Da Vinci finished his painting of The Last Supper in 1498, and less than 60 years later, it was considered ruined because of its flaking and deterioration! New Zealand has two official national anthems. One of them- 'God Defend New Zealand'- is often sun in a mixture of two languages, Maori and English!