Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 28, 2006
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Q: A plastic toy boat loaded with cast-iron sailors is sailing in a bathtub. If all the sailors were to fall overboard, with the water in the tub rise or fall? Answer- If the iron sailors fall from the plastic toy boat, the water level will go down! While in the boat, they displace water equal to their weight, but once they are submerged, they displace it equal to their volume. Before crash test dummies were used to study automobile collisions, life test subjects and cadavers were used to collect information! In 1937, the Russian icebreaker ship Sedov became trapped in the Arctic Circle on a scientific expedition and drifted in the ice floes for 812 days while its crew used it as a floating research station!