Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 01, 2015

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Sailors once measured the proof of rum by mixing it with gunpowder and igniting it- it only lighted if it was above 57% alcohol. Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev launched into space as a Soviet citizen but returned as a Russian citizen- he was in orbit when the Soviet Union dissolved. The largest squid ever captured weighed about 990 pounds and was nearly 39 feet long. If calamari rings were made from it, they would have been the size of tractor tires!