Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 01, 2012
April 30, 2012
May 02, 2012
Transcript:
The Northern Wheatear, a tiny, 25 gram songbird, makes an annual 18,600 mile, round-trip migratory journey between sub-Saharan Africa and its Arctic breeding grounds. The town of Manson, Iowa, USA, sits on top of a 74 million-year-old meteorite crash site that disrupted the underlying rock so badly that today it is nearly impossible to drill water wells in the area! Russian general Alexander Suvorov (1729-1800) went undefeated during his decades long career as a military leader!
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A really interesting article about the Manson, Iowa meteorite:
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2012/02/19/ancient-meteorite-impact-crater-in-manson-iowa-causing-problems-for-towns-water-supply/