Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 15, 2014
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Transcript:
In 1879, British Reverend George Garrett launched a steam powered submarine equipped with a torpedo- it sank off the coast of Wales during Navy tests, and was rediscovered in 1995. Lake Baikal in Serbia, the deepest in the world, contain so much water that it would take 40 years for the Mississippi River to fill it. At 550 feet tall, 33 Thomas Street in New York is the tallest skyscraper in the world with no windows- it was built in 1974 to house telephone switching equipment.
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In 1879, they launched a submarine in Lake Baikal. It sank, and they couldn’t find it for over a hundred years because they were looking for it in the Mississippi River. It had actually been at 33 Thomas Street in New York, but no one could see it because windows hadn’t been invented yet.