Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 24, 2011
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Transcript:
Lloyd Scott crawled the entire 26 miles of the 2011 London Marathon dressed in a 9 foot snail costume. It took him 26 days to finish. The dried outer coating of acorn kernel bursts at 132 pounds per inch, which allowing us to make popcorn! Bill Haast (1910-2011) of Florida was bitten by a venomous snake so frequently (172 times) that he became immune to snake venom and even had his blood used to save the lives of other bite victims!
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I remember hearing about Bill Haast, and how his blood saved the lives of lots of snake bite victims. I’m sorry to read that he’s passed on.