Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 29, 2013

if she’d done it over the toilet she might have had a chance

Re: Panda

I suppose that is because bamboo is tougher to chew than seal blubber.

So young the N-Zed dame was.

While Cola is very acidic, stomach acid has an even lower pH level. So I might say, while she might have died after drinking 5000 gallons of soda in the course of 8 years, it was not the only thing that killed her. It might have been a factor, but most probably not the only one. For all we know, she could’ve been run over by a bus.I mean… for all we know, RBION could have pulled it out of their arses. Without cites one never knows. There have been instances where featured articles by Ripleys have been proved to be false by Mythbusters and Snopes.com

I think I read an article about her. If memory serves, she also smoked cigarettes like a freakin’ fiend! And yes, I think it was her unhealthy habits that did her in and not a bus…

5,000 Gallons/ 8 yrs = 625G/yr625G/yr = 1.7G/day = 2.3 cans/day

Many people drink a lot more soda than this every day. I know I have averaged at least twice that amount for the last 20+ years.

According to the article that Alexikakos gave the url for, she averaged two 20 ounce bottles of soda per day. Far from excessive.

Sodas cuase you to gain weight. even diet sodas.

Hmmm, a skull in a pop bottle…. there could be a market for that.

Matthew Bell needs to work on his posture. And soon. He’ll have a dowager’s hump before he’s thirty.

My husband, who was on dialysis, was told not to drink any cola drinks, as it could lower your potassium, and affect your bones as well.

According to my math, 1.7 gallons a day is equivalent to 18 cans of soda a day, so she was basically drinking a can every hour she was awake. I can’t imagine drinking that much…

Good thing I don’t drink much pop!

More than 1⅔ gallons of soda a day? And my family gets on me for drinking too much of it…

Who volunteered to be bitten by the panda and the polar bear?

Yeah, it probably would’ve taken five years if it were Mountain Dew.

Paul Inman 30, of Haworth Britain just died the other day due to a 3 liter a day Cola habit..He was under care in a home and suffered from Aspergers syndrome,( a form of Autism)..The article said he went down to the local store 2 times a day to buy those fizzy drinks

OK, on the soda thing. I could not understand all the crazy math I was seeing so I did some research on the story. I pulled up over 2 dozen web sites about it. Seems no two gave the same numbers. It ranged from 40 ounces per day up to 3 gallons per day. With that in mind I am going to have to call BS on the soda story.

Article indicated 8 liters (FOUR 2-LITER BOTTLES) a day and 3 packs of cigarettes minimum per-day, and also had 8 kids, one after another for 8 years.

“Believe It Or Not” does not claim that all of their statements are true. You are not required to believe it.

Also: Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc (After this, therefore because of this) is a logical fallacy.