Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 28, 2016

Transcript:

In 1917, about 10,000 sailors gathered at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois to create a living flag! Sisters Augusta and Adeline Van Buren of Brooklyn, New York, rode motorcycles 5500 miles across the United States in 1916 to prove women's abilities to be wartime couriers! Wealthy and wacky! Nineteenth-century heiress Josephine Wendel, of New York City, had her table set for six imaginary guests each night and held conversations with them over dinner.