Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 26, 2014

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In 1742, the Marauis De Bacqueville attempted to fly across the river Sene, and Paris, with wings attached to his arms and legs. He crashed onto a bridge and broke a leg. The Cyana Meyricki moth caterpillar suspends itself within a protective cage woven from its own hair when it pupates. In 1973, British sailors Marie's and Maralun Bailey survived 117 days adrift in the Pacific Ocean in a rubber raft when their yacht sank after striking a whale en route to New Zealand.