Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 11, 2011
Transcript:
Lungs have taste buds which can detect bitter-tasting compounds- although they are not connected to the brain! On July 23, 2010, a maid at the Hyde Park towers hotel in London, England, discovered a guest's dead body after his room had been left undisturbed for 2 weeks straight! British plantation owner Gyles Mackrell rescused hundreds of refugees fleeing the Japanese invasion of Burma in 1942 by organizing a parade of elephants to carry them across flood-swollen rivers into British India!