Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 26, 2014
February 25, 2014
February 27, 2014
Transcript:
Ripley's Believe It or Not! President F.D. Roosevelt once used an armored Cadillac seized from the famous gangster Al Capone while his own car was in the shop. The main currency of the Aztecs and Mayans was cocoa beans. In Elizabethan Britain, only the royal family and powerful courtiers were allowed to wear purple.
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Templo S.U.D. about 10 years ago
I don’t how to comment on FDR’s car taken by Al.
dr_dolittle_rwc about 10 years ago
Oh yeah, and you should taste their chocolate today! There’s a reason why it’s so expensive!
jack fairbanks about 10 years ago
What a difference an “O” makes
Dkram about 10 years ago
I believe that color purple came from a shell fish..I think, there for I am, I think.\\//_
Guilty Bystander about 10 years ago
Better cocoa beans than bitcoin, apparently.
Stephen Gilberg about 10 years ago
I can hardly believe that RBIoN today uses no exclamation marks in any of its three tidbits! …Then again, it didn’t yesterday either! Are you sure this is still John Graziano?
Oxnate about 10 years ago
Only Cocoa farmers could wear purple.
AmyGrantfan51774 about 10 years ago
that’s interesting FDR used one of Al Capone’s cars eh?!!!!…FDR was a great man huh??!!!!…he had polio but that didn’t stop him from being governor of New York and then President of the United States eh??????!!!!!!!!!!
tuslog64 about 10 years ago
As I recall, purple was reserved only for the nobility amongst the Incas?