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Locals Have Been Tending to the Uffington White Horse for 3,000 Years!
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WWII Parachute Wedding Dress
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JFK Kept a Coconut on His Desk
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Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, Kieran Castaño is the eighth artist to continue the legacy of illustrating the world's longest-running syndicated cartoon!