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1. 4 months ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   The goblin shark must live nearly a mile below the bottom of the ocean if the 40,000 feet number is correct.

2. 4 months ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   1986. Author Mark Twain was born when Comet Halley was visible and later predicted he would die when the comet returned 75 years later, He CALLED it.

3. 4 months ago on Tarzan

   The best laid plans of mice and fake legionnaires oft go astray.

4. 4 months ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   Do you swim with your eyes closed? If so, do you bump into things a lot?

5. 4 months ago on Peanuts

   Lucy, just tell yourself to get over it and then charge yourself 5¢ please.

6. 5 months ago on Frank and Ernest

   In the New Hampshire pen, prisoners make plates bearing the motto “Live Free or Die”. Ironic, No?

7. 6 months ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   …and that calendar was more accurate than the one we use today.

8. 6 months ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   I heard it was the middle of the 20th century (when antibiotics became available). Before then the average person was better off without “medicine” and “justice”.

9. 7 months ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   East to West still applies. It’s because of the sideways “S” shape of Panama: some of the Pacific intrudes to the east and some of the Atlantic intrudes to the west. … I always found it strange the Sun moves from left to right across the sky looking from the northern hemisphere but right to left if you look from the southern hemisphere. (And of course it’s the Earth’s rotation that makes the Sun appear to move.)

10. 8 months ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

    About Mark Twain: he predicted he would depart this Earth when Halley’s Comet appeared in 1910 and he CALLED IT.