Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 05, 2012
November 04, 2012
November 06, 2012
Transcript:
83-year-old Betty Lou Overholser of Mich., USA, and 76-year-old Dolores Viola of Maplewood, Minn., reunited in 2012 after discovering they were sisters separated by adoption 75 years earlier! The landing procedure for NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover includes 76 pyrotechnic devices, the largest supersonic parachute ever built, and a computerized landing sequence with more than 500,000 lines of code! Military age men in Switzerland are each issued a gun, which they are required to keep at home in case the country is ever invaded!
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