Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 30, 2016
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If all the muscles in the human body worked at once, a person could lift 25 tons! Anglo-Irish journalist and aviator Lillian Bland built her own plane from trees, canvas, a whiskey bottle and an ear trumpet in 1910! Wawa In 2009, five West Chester, Pennsylvania, women completed a two-year quest to visit every Wawa convenience store in operation at the time- 596 locations!
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The thing about Lilian Bland is misguiding at least. She didn’t built it herself aloneShe didn’t use “trees”, she used woodShe didn’t use just a bottle and an ear trumpet
After the first trials as a glider, she got an engine from Avro. Because the gas tank was not fitted by the time the engine was, she used a whiskey bottle as a gas tank and the gas was poured into the engine though the ear trumpet.