Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 15, 2014
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Transcript:
Logging is America's most dangerous job. On average, more than one lumberjack died each week in 2012. The Nobel prize winning physicist Niels Bohr was also a goalkeeper for the top Danish soccer club Akademisk Boldklub. The pen tailed tree shrew drinks alcohol fermented plant nectar with the strength of beer- but never gets drunk!
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corpcasselbury almost 10 years ago
Interesting. I always thought that firefighters had the most dangerous job of all. And maybe they should do some research to see why the tree shrew doesn’t get drunk; the secret might be applied to humans (who definitely need it).
stlmaddog5 almost 10 years ago
The pen-tailed tree shrew metabolizes the alcohol differently than we do". And it is the only source of nourishment for them. Studies are being done, but so far no cigar. http://www.livescience.com/7540-tree-shrew-sober-drinking-day.html
Hussell almost 10 years ago
Yeah, we’ve all heard this one before. Well, the pen-tailed tree shrew may SAY he’s not drunk, but still, don’t give him the keys to your car!
Kerovan almost 10 years ago
US President is the most dangerous job of all. Out of 43 US presidents, Grover Cleveland is counted twice since he had non-consecutive terms so Obama is 44th president, four have been assassinated. There is no other job in the world with that high a percentage of mortality.
IQTech61 almost 10 years ago
There’s an easy way to reduce lumberjack death – start growing and using industrial hemp for paper instead of trees.
Albertaguy almost 10 years ago
I recall hearing that when forestry is classified as part of agriculture, then agriculture is the most dangerous sector. The most dangerous animal is the dairy bull.
sdjamieson Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Then why drink it?
gaslightguy almost 10 years ago
When I drove a taxi in Chicago years ago, that was considered the most dangerous job to have More deaths per year than police and firemen combined.
flyintheweb almost 10 years ago
gee, if you listen to our government, we’ve killed the “#2 man in Al-Queda” about 5 or 6 times a year lately…..
boldyuma almost 10 years ago
It seems that working on the flight deck of a aircraft carrier should be in the top 5 dangerous jobs..
english.ann almost 10 years ago
Tree shrews can handle alcohol better than cedar waxwings and bears do. Those birds and bears get drunk like we do; not that they KNEW they were ingesting alcohol, let alone what would result; the cedar waxwings fell out of the trees they were in. I think the bears consumed grapes after they had had time to ferment; we know bears like berries.I count eight presidents dying in office: our ninth, twelfth, sixteenth, twentieth, twenty-fifth, twenty-ninth, thirty-second, and thirty-fifth. An attempt was made on Truman, and two attempts on Ford. One was made on Reagan.