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Robert Ripley of Ripley's Believe it or Not would not call his oddity cast members "freaks". And would even threaten to fire staff if they used the term "freak."
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Robert Ripley (of Believe it or Not fame) received thousands of letters addressed backwards, upside down, in Braille, Hebrew, shorthand, semaphore, or Morse code. The USPS eventually had to issue an order that "puzzle mail" would no longer be processed.
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During his eighteen-year run on radio beginning in 1930, Robert Ripley of Ripley's Believe it or Not, recorded live radio shows from underwater, the sky, caves, snake pits and foreign countries.
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Robert Ripley—of "Believe it or Not!" fame—ironically died on stage while discussing a funeral hymn. Believe it or not.
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Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz's first publication of artwork was published by Robert Ripley of Ripley's Believe It or Not! It was a cartoon of Schulz's dog Spike which later became the model for Peanuts' Snoopy.
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Robert Ripley, of Ripley's Believe It or Not, was the New York State handball champion in 1926.
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In 1893 the magazine The Century published a story that stated that the Great Wall of China could be seen from the moon. Robert Ripley (he founded Ripley's Believe it Or Not) made the same claim in 1932. It has not been proven and is highly unlikely. Compare this to being able to see a human hair from two miles away. Ripley should have classified this myth as ‘Or Not".
