Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 20, 2015
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More please!! In the late 1980s, India released 25,000 flesh eating turtles into the Ganges River to clean up corpse pollution. Hey dude! The word dude was first used in the 1800s as an insult poured young man overly concerned with trendy fashions. On May 6, 2015, the Harlem Globetrotters named Pope Frances the ninth honorary team member in their history.
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