Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 14, 2013
August 13, 2013
August 15, 2013
Transcript:
Beetlemania! The flesh eating dermestid beetle is used by some museums to clean the bones of exhibits- a colony of the beetles can strip a skull and one day! Looks.. Um... Yummy? Tecuitlatl, or Lake algae, was a popular food for the Aztecs until the 16th century, and is now a trendy health food called spirulina. Hey!! Whatya you think you're doing?!! Every year tourists throw over $1,000,000 in coins in the Trevi fountain in Rome!
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edclectic over 10 years ago
Alas, poor Yorick, they gnaw him well…
billb181 over 10 years ago
Lol, good one edclectic! :)
barefoottech over 10 years ago
Spirulina is a cyanobacterium not an ALGAE
James Hopkins over 10 years ago
A more important question: Would it be impolite if I took a fishing net to the fountain and started scooping up all of the change?
Carl Rennhack Premium Member over 10 years ago
The singer Enzo Stuarti said it best—“The crazy Americans spending all day tossing coins into the fountain and making their wishes…and the crazy Italians spending all night taking out the coins, and GETTING their wishes!”
Charlie Fogwhistle over 10 years ago
Do museums really accept bones so fresh they need that kind of cleaning? Maybe Jimmy Hoffa has been hiding in plain sight all along.
HankTheSock over 10 years ago
Wow…I wish I owned that well…
Kali39 over 10 years ago
The green stuff looks like Kryptonite.
ReneTray over 10 years ago
Back in 1980’s Dateline did the story about the coins. A “mafia” "collects from the fountain.
AmyGrantfan51774 over 10 years ago
the Trevi fountain was the fountain featured in the song and movie Three Coins in the Fountain who saw the movie????!!!!… it’s a classic sure y’all have heard the song it’s a classic