Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 23, 2017

Well, something had to be the first product to have its bar code scanned.

Wouldn’t Mr. Shakespeare to hear of those two kids’ ordeal. As for a urine-made tooth, one word: ewwww. Them Chinese sure think of interesting things.

1st panel: So cute!!! 2nd panel: I’ve heard that even bananas from different places taste different. For instance, the bananas found in countries in Africa are much sweeter and taste better than the bananas we are sold here in the USA. 3rd panel: Yuck!!!!

Oh and forgot the gum panel: As PearlsBS mentioned: It’s not a big deal…something had to be the first.

I don’t get what’s the big deal with the babies, their names are not excuse to be something Ripley would have put as “Believe it or Not”

This Romeo-Juliet story isn’t worth mentioning in ‘Believe or Not’ or anywhere else.

Romeo and Juliet will probably go to different schools together, too.

Potty mouth.

So the two sets of parents had never met before or never met at the hotel before the births?

The Gros Michel (Big Mike) banana was probably a staple of your grandfather’s or great grandfather’s diet, but chances are you haven’t had the pleasure of a taste. - – -

Most people have only ever eaten the Cavendish, so that’s what I’ll compare it to. You should know that Cavendish is fairly tasteless compared to most types of sweet banana. The taste is considerably sweeter, and the consistency much creamier, with extremely narrow “seed areas” that you can see, but only vaguely taste.- – -

I should note that you do occasionally see something labeled Gros Michel in US supermarkets. They aren’t the same thing, and don’t taste any different than Cavendish.

What is so odd about babies being born in the same hospital having parents that have never met? That probably occurs in virtually every hospital in the United States multiple times a day.

He buddy, what’s with the yellow tooth?

Why does this remind me of R. Crumb’s pirate, Captain Pissgums?

No wonder banana never tastes like banana.

The question is, do the newborn’s parents hate each other?

In 1985, I taught in a school where there were two sets of twin girls named Dawn and Dina. One pair was in third grade, the other in eighth grade. Ripley worthy?

Slow day at Ripley’s.

Ah, yes, the Gros Michel, aka “Big Mike”. When senior citizens tell you that bananas don’t taste as good as they used to, this is one case where they are telling the truth.

“Potty mouth!” “Toilet tooth!”

For those of you too young to remember the 1974 introduction of bar code scanners; where I lived people were very sceptical that the machine would give the correct price. After all a big advantage to the seller is they no longer had to put a price tag on every single item in the store. How would the buyer know if the machine made a mistake? So the supermarkets guaranteed that if the scanner was wrong, the item was free.

The brief was poorly written. Not from urine but from stem cells in the urine.