Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 31, 2011
August 30, 2011
September 01, 2011
Transcript:
Broadcast rights to the first televised FIFA World Cup in 1954 were given away free. Bite 2010, those tournament rights sold for $2.4 billion! Believe it or not! Ferdinand Magellan wasn't the first person to circumnavigate the globe! He died along with more than 200 of his men in the attempt, while his second in command, Juan Sebastian Elcano, completed the journey. Bishinu Shrestha, a soldier from Pokhara, Nepal, was riding on a train on Sept. 2, 2010, when it was robbed by a gang of more than 3 dozen men. Armed with only his kukri knife and terribly outnumbered, he fought for his life and drove them off!
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The Bishnu Shrestha soldier entry says he was using a Kukri knife, but the illustration shows him holding not a kukri knife but what looks like a meat cleaver. You folks need to do more research.