Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 10, 2005

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In spring 2005, a group of English scientists spent a month hunting the Mongolian death warm, a 5 foot long creature that is rumored to spit corrosive saliva and discharge electric shocks! Their search turned up plenty of people who claim to have seen it, but the worm proved elusive. On the day Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as president of South Africa, May 10, 1994, no one crime was reported in the capital, Pretoria! In 1405, Admiral Zheng sailed from China to Africa with 27,000 sailors and soldiers to capture giraffes and other exotic animals to awe the Imperial court!