Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 20, 2006
Transcript:
Fresh mummy? When Egyptians couldn't find mummies to grind up for sale to medieval pharmacists in Europe and the Mediterranean- they tanned freshly dead bodies to make them look mummified! Real estate developer Burton Farman paid $1,752 for a square inch plot of land in Indiana- a price equivalent to over $10 billion per acre! Civil War cemeteries in the US are contaminating groundwater with arsenic which was used for embalming corpses until the early 1900s!