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TIL that Ripley’s Believe It or Not was researched by a man who spent every day at the NYC Public library for 52 years, discovering at least 62,192 amazing facts and anecdotes. One skeptical reader wrote 27,167 double-checking letters to sources and never found an unsubstantiated item.

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