Ripley's Believe It or Not (radio spot)

The first air-conditioned house in the United States was lime air, built in Lure, Virginia, by Colonel TC Northcott. It was kept cool in summer and warm in winter by air pipe from the nearby Lure Caverns.

They leave it or not. In a moment, I'll tell you about a weaponless duel. One of the strangest duels where no weapons were used was between two sculptors, the Great Buddha, a statue in the Diamond Mountains of Korea, was carved 600 years ago by a sculptor named Kindo.

It's there because of an unusual duel in which Kindo and a rival sculptor named Rao agreed that whichever created the poorer statue would forfeit his life. Kindo won and Rao drowned himself, believe it or not.