Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 18, 2014
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Transcript:
A piece of the apple tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity traveled into space aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis in 2010. Physicists at Harvard have slowed the speed of light to less than the top speed of a racehorse using super low temperatures. Scholars in medieval Baghdad who translated books into Arabic received the weight of the book in gold as a reward.
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Uh… how was that piece of Isaac’s tree stay well preserved after all these years without rot or termites?