Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 23, 1996
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Ripley's Believe It or Not! In 1872, Baron Rodemire de Tarazone of France was murdered by a man named Claude Volbonne - 21 years after his father had been murdered by a man named Claude Volbonne - yet the two killers were not related! In 1908, John Albert Korhn pushed a wheelbarrow from Portland, Maine, west to Washington, south along the Pacific coast, east to the Gulf and then to the Atlantic, a distance of 9,024 miles in 357 days! In China, licorice was once used in religious ceremonies and as medicine to help prolong life! Submitted by Chester Tnumidajewicz, Amsterdam, NY