Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 11, 2011
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Nearly 2 billion vehicles have crossed the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Calif., USA, since its completion in 1937! Soviet researcher Dimitri Belyaev began breeding foxes in the 1950s as a genetic experiment, and discovered they could be domesticated in less than a dozen generations! More than 50 years later, the experiment is still going on. On Feb. 5, 2011- a 237-year-old bottle of French wine sold at auction for $77,000!
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