Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 01, 2013
July 31, 2013
August 02, 2013
Transcript:
Croatian researchers are training bees to detect landmines in the Balkans by teaching them to sniff out TNT. Herman Melville, who was born 194 years ago today, sold only 3715 copies of Moby Dick in his lifetime! The human body contains enough sink to make a United States penny.
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