Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 16, 2020

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    eromlig  about 4 years ago

    I know someone who was born in 1930, the year Betty White turned 8.

    I know a university that is younger than the Aztec Empire.

    Take drugs and may God forgive.

    [What happened to that guy from Indiana? He posted all over the place for one day, then disappeared. He had never posted before.]

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    pearlsbs  about 4 years ago

    Okay, is the MLK, Anne Frank and Betty White claim really that hard to believe?

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    scpandich  about 4 years ago

    When Senator Strom Thurmond turned 100 (while still in office!) The Daily Show did a skit about things that had come and gone since Strom Thurmond was in high school. The three things were:

    Marilyn Monroe

    Pan-American airline

    The Soviet Union

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    Tossle Premium Member about 4 years ago

    Im not interested in what year Betty White turned 7….But I am interested in knowing what year she turned 11.

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    Zykoic  about 4 years ago

    Betty White graduated from Oxford and did Aztec Ethnic post graduate studies at Tenochtitlan Technical. She hopes to pay off her student loan soon.

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    sevaar777  about 4 years ago

    Very lame. Take those droppings and blow up this toon today.

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    therese_callahan2002  about 4 years ago

    Sure, if they can get the pigeon droppings off the statues, and the guano removed from attic rafters.

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    Breadboard  about 4 years ago

    CSA used human urine to make gunpowder. Dried it produced 1 of the 3 main chemicals in gunpowder .

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    dlasher  about 4 years ago

    Bat guano was an important explosive aboard 1960s space missions. After the Mercury and Gemini capsules splashed down, they had to deploy a 6-foot telescoping radio antenna. The bat guano provided a gentle explosion that locked the antenna sections together without blowing the whole thing apart.

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    jpayne4040  about 4 years ago

    It’s rare that they’ll give three facts in a strip that I already knew, but I already knew all three of these. I do remember being shocked when I first heard each one.

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    dmagoon202ii  about 4 years ago

    BTW, “The Wizard of Oz” is younger than “The Book of Mormon”.

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    johnbrown1859  about 4 years ago

    You use it to shoot the shit.

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    Attwater's prairie chicken  about 4 years ago

    on this day in history on September 16th 1620 The Pilgrims sail from England on the Mayflower.

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    russef  about 4 years ago

    Hence the saying “shooting the ————“

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    joeatwork212  about 4 years ago

    Bat caves were sought out for the guano for the manufacture of Black Powder. Actually, Potassium Nitrate, a major part of black powder, can be leached out of any animal manure, even human.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  about 4 years ago

    So we gather that the Aztec empire had no institutes of higher learning.

    Take care and gesundheit.

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    Nighthawks Premium Member about 4 years ago

    so I guess it’s good luck for Betty White to have not been shot or sent to a concentration camp

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    Gameguy49 Premium Member about 4 years ago

    Thanks Ripley! Now if I’m blocked in a cave by a rock slide I’ll know to use the bat guano to blast the entrance open.

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    Michael G.  about 4 years ago

    I am ASTONISHED!

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    heathcliff2  about 4 years ago

    Useful facts and I smell an old industry possibly making a comeback.

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    stamps  about 4 years ago

    Coming soon – the Diary of Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty White.

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    yangeldf  about 4 years ago

    Everyone who is a fan of “Dr. Stone” already knew the bat thing

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    Petemejia77  about 4 years ago

    When Betty White looked like Ann Frank use to make a Aztec blend of gunpowder out of bat poop when she lived near MLK Blvd, she sold a crate to the Oxford duck hunt club for a good price!Wear Nair. Not on the dress.

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    ekke  about 4 years ago

    Bat and pigeon droppings can also be used to make nitrate-based fertilizer — actually a closely related substance to gunpowder.

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    ScottHolman  about 4 years ago

    I think Betty White was born before dirt was invented.

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    Ricky Bennett  about 4 years ago

    In the words of Rip Haywire, Ka-GUANO!!!

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    namelocdet  about 4 years ago

    Betty White is actually older than sliced bread. No kidding. Look it up.

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    paullp Premium Member about 4 years ago

    That first item reads like something Ruben Bolling would come up with.

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    craigwestlake  about 4 years ago

    That should make passing gas an explosive experience…

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    pbr50138  about 4 years ago

    In Marine Boot Camp, in 1968, we had a DI that mentioned “bat droppings” a lot but I can’t repeat it here.

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