Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 30, 2013
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In 1979, Elvita Adams survived a jump from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building when she was blown back onto a ledge on the 85th! Whoosshhh In November 2012, basketball player Jack Taylor of Grinnell College scored 138 points in a single game! The Hertfordshire Hermit Wealthy English landowner James Lucas (1813-1874) barricaded himself in his kitchen for the last 25 years of his life!
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