Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 08, 2012
February 07, 2012
February 09, 2012
Transcript:
When a RAF Spitfire aircraft was excavated 70 years after it crashed into an Irish bog, it's machine guns still fired, after some cleaning! 25 homes in Yewla, Nigeria, are being built entirely from sand filled, discarded plastic water bottles. The recycled bottles serve as good insulation, and are both inexpensive and bullet resistant! The Democratic Republic of Congo's Mount Nyiragongo has one of the world's largest permanent lava lakes, with a huge 1800F pool of molten rock!
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