Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 21, 2013

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Tom Stilwell =, 20, from England, fell 13 floors from a balcony in Auckland, New Zealand, in June 2013 and despite breaking several bones, survived to tell the tale! Blue whales can hear each other over distances of 100 miles, but it's believed they used to communicate over 1000 miles before human noise pollution increased in recent decades. At the Festival of the Dead Rats, held annually in El Puig, Spain, attendees hit a cucana- a type of- filled with dead rats, and then throw the rats at each other!