Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 09, 2014
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May 10, 2014
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Ripley's Believe It or Not! Cumulonimbus clouds can be 8 miles in height - almost twice as tall as Mount Everest! Africa has more French speakers than the whole of Europe. OUI! A violin played on the sinking titanic by bandleader Wallace Hartley, found with his body at sea, was sold for $1.5m in 2013 - despite being unplayable.
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sarazan7 over 10 years ago
I heard they were still playing as the ship sank.
corpcasselbury over 10 years ago
I don’t know about him, but I would have been doing some very fervent praying!
banddmandd over 10 years ago
The “oui!” is pointed to a ex-Portugal colony !
ClarkSavageJr over 10 years ago
Can Wallace come out and play?
tuslog64 over 10 years ago
It’s also said that there are more people of Polish descent in Chicago, Illinois than in Warsaw (capital city), Poland.More Turks in Russia than in Turkey. (Although a minority, in Russia, but part of a larger population)(Figures subject to dispute if anyone has updated facts)
english.ann over 10 years ago
I expect that the French-speaking Africans are mostly in West Africa (Ivory Coast, Guinea, Benin, Togo and others), not in East Africa; Swahili is spoken in Kenya and Tasmania, there in East Africa.
Phil721 over 10 years ago
CBs frequently top above 60,000ft