Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 18, 2002
Transcript:
Tao Berman paddled a kayak over the Johnson Falls in Banff National Park in Alberta, Ont., Canada, for a vertical drop of 98 FT! Neatha Curl of Southhampton, England, lost a locket on a Bournemouth Beach in 1952 and had it returned to her 50 years later! The average person in the US blinks 20,000 times, takes 23,000 breaths and speaks about 48,000 words every day!
48,000 words a day?? I doubt anyone speaks that many words a day, how is that even possible? I barely even speak 48 words a day myself, jeez!