Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 19, 2011
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It took Alaian Spiderman Robert more than 6 hours to scale the exterior of the 2717 foot tall Buji Khalifa Tower on March 28, 2011! Coral reefs have cleaning stations which animals visit to be cleaned by shrimp and fish that specialize in eating parasites off the other marine life! The planet Venus has winds that race around it surfaced about 60 times faster than the speed of the planet's rotation!
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Yes, but the speed of Venus’ rotation at its equator is only 6.5 km/h (for comparison, Earth’s equator moves at 1,670 km/h. Venus rotates (in retrograde) in 243 Earth days, which is the slowest of any planet in our system. The surprising thing is that Earth doesn’t have more violent winds – I suspect the reason has something to do with distance from the sun.