Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 22, 2015
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Transcript:
It will probably never happen again, but Stonehenge went up for auction in 1915, selling for just 6600. In 1939, in Montreal, Canada, bizarre cone-shaped masks were introduced to protect the user's face during a snowstorm. For real? China is home to half the world's pigs!
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Frog-on-a-Log Premium Member over 8 years ago
A man named Cecil Chubb bought Stonehenge for his wife.
therese_callahan2002 over 8 years ago
That explains a story I read many years ago, about a Chinese peddler whose magical pig could make other pigs materialize out of thin air.
ZorkArg over 8 years ago
I’ve heard of coneheads, but cone-faces?
kvnkoehler over 8 years ago
Actually the snow-cone is a pretty good idea.
Templo S.U.D. over 8 years ago
Shouldn’t the Québécois cones be a bit shorter? Being that long could go poking people in the back, in the gut,… below the belt and up the skirt?
Brown Leghorn over 8 years ago
Snowstorm? I believe they mean Snow Blizzard, wind driven frozen snow, which can be severe enough for some face protection.
Stephen Gilberg over 8 years ago
But who sold Stonehenge in the first place?
Strip Watcher over 8 years ago
They probably gave it away when they had to reset all the stones to account for daylight savings time!!