Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 14, 2014
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October 15, 2014
Transcript:
Finland, a country of 5 million people, has more than 3 million saunas. The scientist Mary Ward became the first person ever killed in an auto accident when she was thrown out of an early steam powered car in Ireland in 1869. Indricotherium is the largest land mammal ever to have lived. It looked like a cross between an elephant, a rhino and a giraffe, weighed 15 tons, stood 25 feet tall, and lived 30 million years ago.
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