Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 03, 2013

Lewis and Clark discovered that blue beads were the most favored in trade with Native Americans along their route of exploration. I love trivia…

I wonder if that millipede gets ingrown toenails.

“Blue” – LeAnn Rimes

Huzzah! And a grand huzzah to John Graziano.

751 legs and always walks to the left. It’s CALIFORNIA people!

Only one female mechanic in all of India?! Amazing!

The blue came from the lapis lazuli stone.

In a country of over one bilion people, how can it possibly be known that there is only one female mechanic? And how do you define mechanic, I have no formal training, and I am not that good at it but I do over 75% of the work on my tractors, quads, truck and other equipment. Am I a mechanic or not?

Ah, I just noticed that nobody else gets credit for submitting the facts today.Here I thought that purple was the most expensive pigment, given its association with royalty.

Also, I assume that 750 is an estimate. Nature isn’t big on round numbers in the base 10.

Whatever it is, I don’t believe it.

And one just crawled down your shirt!

If you drop a rock on a millipede’s tail it will keep walking until it pulls its own guts out. Something learned growing up in south Texas.

So even the longest breed of “millipede” has only three fourths of a thousand legs!