Blame it on the gravedigger. As the story goes, he's responsible for the incorrect layout of the St. Joseph Catholic Church ...

In 1918, as a sports cartoonist for the New York Globe, he began the cartoon Believe It or Not! Barren of ideas for the cartoon one day, Ripley strung together a collage of sports oddities.

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