Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 08, 2015
August 07, 2015
August 09, 2015
Transcript:
In an April 2, 1931, New York Yankees exhibition game, 17-year-old Jackie Mitchell struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in succession! Pule cheese- the world's most expensive cheese- costing $1000 a pound- doesn't come from cows or goats, but from Balkan donkeys. Jumbo jaws! Leptostyrax Macrorhiza, a gigantic 100 million-year-old shark found in Texas, who was as long as a two-story building is tall!
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johnt204 over 8 years ago
Why can’t they say the shark is about 20 feet long?
Templo S.U.D. over 8 years ago
Mmmmmm… Balkan donkey cheese.
tahoeh2o over 8 years ago
That’s why its called an Exhibition Game…
derdave969 over 8 years ago
Not sure why they bothered with such a small fossil shark. Estimates for C. megalodon vary between 50 and almost 100 feet. Its teeth are easily 4 times the size of a great white.
bmillard over 8 years ago
The article “an” refers to the exhibition game in this case as there could have easily been more than one of these played on this date.
cripplious over 8 years ago
Depending on which of the many calendars man has created there could be several but I’m guessing they are talking about the fact baseball runs several games a day.
ex window inspector over 8 years ago
It’s questionable if Jackie Mitchell’s performance was genuine
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-woman-who-maybe-struck-out-babe-ruth-and-lou-gehrig-4759182/?no-ist=&page=4
Kirby_Dots over 8 years ago
Yea two things about the exhibition game. Was it a publicity stunt to get headlines? Or from the stories I’ve read about the off field activities of players of that era there was a good chance they have had one or two too many drinks.
If not and she was that good one wonders why they have to divide it up into boys and girls even to this day.
tototu over 8 years ago
Yeah, yeah. Texas has big sharks.
Old Texan75 over 8 years ago
I just assumed Jackie was a boy. Again, I also have no idea what an Exhibiition Gamee is.English, or Anglo-American is now the most widely used and spoken language on Earth. No one speaks it correctly and almost no two speakers separated by more than a hundred miles or 50 years many times have no idea what the other is talking about.A shark as long as a two story building is tall? All news bobble heads on TV report the length of anything in football fields. Google length conversion “building story” to “football field”. Reference previous comment on English, I recently saw the term “football pitch” to measure the length of something. Knowing that in most of the world outside the USA football is USA soccer and if “pitch” is a soccer field what in the heck is the length of a “pitch”? And I have made a ton of grammatical errors in this drivel, but at least we got easy verbs.
linsonl over 8 years ago
Ten years to the day before I was born.
marilynn25 over 8 years ago
Hey, that shark was found in what is now TEXAS. Let’s be realistic about this: That thing was just a baby!!
marilynn25 over 8 years ago
Ya don’t mess with Texas.
Tarredandfeathered over 8 years ago
Now that the Price of that cheese has been mentioned, I’m sure there is Someone out there planning to make an even More Expensive cheese out of some sort of Exotic animal’s milk..Mouse Milk cheese.Or, maybe Tiger Milk Cheese..Can I get the Video of the first sucker who gets hired to Milk the Tiger?.