Ripley's Believe It or Not - Thursday July 20, 2017 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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On December 30, 1899, the SS Warrimoo crossed the meeting point of the equator and the international date line at midnight. The ship's forward entered January 1, 1900, while the aft remained in 1899. The Warrimoo simultaneously sat in both hemispheres, two different seasons, months, days and centuries all at once! What were they thinking!? Between 1951 and 1952, uranium ore was briefly sold in a children's science kit! The Gilbert U-239 Atomic Energy Lab was $50 per unit and came with four types of testable uranium and alpha, beta and gamma radiation sources. At the White Tail Chapel, and Virginia, the pastor and congregation attend services nude!

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