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Ripley's Believe It Or Not

Robert LeRoy Ripley (1890 - 1949) created the world famous Ripley's Believe It or Not!

newspaper panel series, featuring odd but true facts from around the world. There were

many subjects covered in Ripley's

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cartoon

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but the most interesting to us is the

number of objects he mentioned that have corkscrew shapes. Here are clippings in

chronological order:

1929 - The Corkscrew Bridge

1935 - Corkscrew Tail

1937 - Corkscrew Tree

1939 - Corkscrew Tree

1941 Screwy Palm