Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 23, 2014
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Jean Robic, the 5 foot- 2 inch winner of the 1947 Tour de France, is said to have picked up led filled water bottles at Mountain summits to give him extra weight for fast downhill sectioning! To: USA due to a linen shortage, Egyptian mummies were imported to the US during the Civil War so that their wrappings could be made into paper, which was still made from linen at the time. The poison Hemlock that famously killed the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates was also used by Greek doctors as a treatment for arthritis- but the wrong dosage was fatal!
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