Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 20, 2016
August 19, 2016
August 21, 2016
Transcript:
A chameleon's mucus is 400 times stickier than human saliva! Australia's first police force, formed in Sydney in 1789, was made up of the city's best behave convicts. The Missouri Glore Psychiatric Museum boasts a mosaic of 1446 objects removed from the stomach of a patient with a compulsive swallowing disorder.
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Templo S.U.D. over 7 years ago
The past convicts knew how to bring the future convicts to justices.
therese_callahan2002 over 7 years ago
Years ago, I read something about a guy who had a wide variety of inedible objects in his stomach. Most of them were coins.
comixbomix over 7 years ago
Sooo…Never kiss a chameleon?
Chad Cheetah over 7 years ago
1811 is when they started using free men instead of convicts.
bbwoof over 7 years ago
My question is, who measured the stickness of the chameleon’s mucus & how did they come up with ‘400’ times stickier. I’m betting that it is 399 stickier, or maybe 401. Ha!.
bookworm0812 over 7 years ago
I Googled that mosaic and found a list of everything that was in the woman’s stomach:.453 nails of various sizes42 screws of various sizes9 bolts7 broken coat rack hooks1 4-foot long string of beads70 large, loose beads85 small stones and pieces of glass7 prune seeds54 pieces of metal19 hooks and eyes148 grape and other seeds5 bent teaspoon handles1 nail file3 pieces of steel5 thimbles3 salt shaker tops10 bolt tops63 buttons105 safety pins115 hair pins52 carpet tacks136 common pins16 white head pins37 needles.That’s the worst case of pica I’ve ever seen!
bbwoof over 7 years ago
And a partridge in a pear tree.