Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 17, 2014

Yep, if you wanted an ailment for bad breath to cancer, tobacco will do it!

It’s interesting how planarian worms can regenerate. You can split their heads and each half grows back so the worm has two heads. Or do the same thing with the tail. You can split them completely down the middle and each half becomes another worm. I read of an experiment where planarian worms were taught to follow a simple path, then ground up and fed to other worms, who then knew how to follow the path.

way back when they didnt satruate it (the tabacco) in all of the chemicals they do now.

There’s a section of LDS scripture (Doctrine & Covenants, 89:8) that says tobacco is meant to be used as a poultice for bruises and a remedy for sick cattle.

It’s quite good at causing both so those doctors must have known what they were doing.

Don’t get too caught up in the tobacco thing. It wasn’t until the 18th Century that medicine started becoming a science.

For some real believe it or nots check out some of the ideas the ancient Greeks had for treatments.

Well, Mr BION, exactly why would I not believe that someone, somewhere, at some time, prescribed eating a handful of frog poop twice a day to keep one’s eyes from crossing??

Tobacco CAN help a wide range of ailments… and cause worse ones in the process.

Studies have shown that nicotine by itself can be beneficial for Parkinson’s Schizophrenia, ADHD and other neurological disorders.

So, Nicotine by itself can be good for you, but all the other crap in tobacco is bad for you.

Yet tobacco is a cause of bad breath and cancer. As far as the worm goes my hat of to you. I don’t live on the moon.