Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 21, 2012
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Transcript:
A collection of 350,000 books owned by Shaunna Raycraft of Pike Lake, Canada, damaged the building in which she stored them- because the books weighed 30 tons! Look what we found! In November 2011 police in Nizhny, Novgorod, Russia, discovered a man's basement containing 29 life-size dolls that were made from corpses stolen from graves! Despite its reputation for incredible toxicity- the poison dart frog is entirely harmless unless it eats a diet of specific insects!
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edumaz over 12 years ago
You are what you eat.
jennifer over 12 years ago
It appears that the frogs accumulate alkaloids from a variety of insects ranging from mites to centipedes. “Evolution of Dietary Specialization and Chemical Defense in Poison Frogs (Dendrobatidate): A Comparative Analysis”. The American Natural 165: 56-69.
chris_weaver over 12 years ago
The old Frankendoll collection.
Sirzanne over 12 years ago
Apropos the Human Taxidermy: seems like this guy wasn’t satsfied with blow-up dolls, tho he really stuffed up gettin’ caught like that — he’s not so much ‘bats in the attic’ as he is ‘corpses in the cellar’!
Apropos the books: that’s what you call heavy reading!
Apropos the poison dart frog: so does it shoot non-poisonous darts if it doesn’t eat these specific insects then? Wouldn’t describe it as “entirely harmless” if so!
Check out this link for some hilarious comments when a Ripley’s researcher asked for info on Human Taxidermy:http://www.taxidermy.net/forums/IndustryArticles/00/j/00AF081B9C.html
tadchem over 12 years ago
My Kindle only weighs a few ounces.
iced tea over 12 years ago
Steven King should hear about those corpse dolls. They’d inspire him to write a new novel.
What kind of cheap material was that building made from that those books damaged it? I know it was 30 tons but wow! those were probably some great books.
Puddleglum2 over 12 years ago
gmartin997,It’s too bad we can’t say the same for the Congress itself! :o(
Puddleglum2 over 12 years ago
The body of evidence is overwhelming!
Puddleglum2 over 12 years ago
Even my backpack can’t stand the strain!“…of making many books, there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.Ecclesiastes 12:12b
Puddleglum2 over 12 years ago
The weight of those books is enough to make even a Poison Dart Frog croak!
Pygar over 12 years ago
It was built to take it. I read a long time ago about a library that was slowly sinking into the ground… the architect had allowed for the weight of the building, but had forgotten to add in the weight of the books.
Nicole ♫ ⊱✿ ◕‿◕✿⊰♫ Premium Member over 12 years ago
I found an article about Shaunna Raycraft and she “adopted” the books from a couple where the husband was a book collector. He died and his wife threatened to “burn the books” so Shaunna saved them. Shaunna kept the books in a small house on her property. Here is the link to the article: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/story/2011/06/06/sk-book-collection.html