Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 24, 2016
June 23, 2016
June 25, 2016
Transcript:
BBC host Lindsay Russell ran more than 10 hours in an inflatable ball floating on the Irish Sea! What? Traffic lights were invented before cars! The London Underground has its own distinct sub species of mosquito- Culex Pipiens Molestus!
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Templo S.U.D. almost 8 years ago
I thought it was a Salt Lake City police officer.
potrerokid almost 8 years ago
That water thing doesn’t look like a ball to me!!
Dkram almost 8 years ago
I thought it was a monkey moving a candle from red to green and back.Think “Flintstones”.\\//_
Chad Cheetah almost 8 years ago
I’m guessing the traffic lights were for pedestrian crossing.
Stephen Gilberg almost 8 years ago
Maybe there’s some mixup about traffic lights versus those moving traffic signs.
DD Wiz Premium Member almost 8 years ago
The first traffic light was in London in 1868 for street traffic outside of Parliament..The first traffic light specifically designed for automobile traffice was by a police officer in Salt Lake City in 1912.
JastMe almost 8 years ago
Garrett Morgan changed them to the Red (top), Yellow, Green (bottom) aspects used today. That was some 10 years after the first electric lights mentioned by others.