Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 04, 2011

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The Pioneer 10 spacecraft was launched in 1972 for a 21 month mission to explore the outer solar system. It passed beyond Pluto's orbit in 1983 and continued to communicate with Earth until 2003! The world's first Akkadian language dictionary was completed in 2011 at the University of Chicago, although, the language's dialects of Assyrian and Babylonian haven't been spoken in 2000 years! During the Battle of Britain in 1940, a dog named Rip help find more than 100 people buried under collapsed buildings!