Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 24, 2014
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Five time Tour de France winner Miguel Indurain (now retired) had a resting heart rate of just 28 beats per minute! The first Porsche was a hybrid designed by Ferdinand Porsche in 1900- the Lohner-Porsche Semper Vivus was powered by both petrol and electric motors and could reach 35 MPH. There is a phone booth... On the roof of the Lincoln, Illinois City Hall it was installed in the 1960s as a weather station so watchers could use the phone to warn of bad weather.
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The payphone industry did itself in. Once I was at Lambert (St. Louis) and wanted to call home. As I recall, the pay phone required $4 for a 120 mile call! So, on the drive home, stopped at Belz Mall (suburban Wentzville) and made the call for 50c!Easy to see how frequent fliers were the first to get the cell phone industry going!