Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 16, 2016
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Bowhead whales can live to be over 200 years old, meaning there could be some alive today that existed before Herman Melville published Moby Dick in 1851. The inventor of the Toll House chocolate chip cookie, Ruth Graves Wakefield, sold her recipe to Nestle for one dollar and a lifetime supply of chocolate. After spending 10 years traveling through space, the New Horizons spacecraft reached Pluto just 72 seconds earlier than was originally predicted.
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