Ripley's Believe It or Not - Wednesday June 2, 2021 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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Leah Shutkever, a competitive eater from the UK, holds a whopping 20 world records for her fast food antics, including the most jam doughnuts eaten in three minutes (10) and fastest time to eat three pickled eggs (7.8 seconds). 1819 A Belgian farmer recently moved to the border between his country in France when he unwittingly relocated one of the boundary stones that had been placed in 1819 by 7.5 feet because it was in the way of his tractor, making Belgium temporarily bigger. In an effort to help solve the mystery of the Dyatlov Pass Incident in 1959 in which nine hikers died, Swiss researchers used the same code that animators used to create the snow for Disney's Frozen. The resulting simulation showed many of the victims' injuries were consistent with the damage caused by avalanches.

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