Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 02, 2011
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Pope Urban VIII- who oversaw Galileo Galilei's trial for hearsay, had originally been a friend and supporter of the accused astronomer! The Marbled Lungfish- Protoperus Aethiopicus, has a DNA genome 133 billion letters long- 44 times larger than a human's! Jupiter is orbited by 63 known moons!
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