Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 15, 2013
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Transcript:
Aw... Ain't he cute? The naked mole rat of Africa is the only cold blooded mammal known to exist! The US Secret Service, tasked with protecting the President, was created by Abraham Lincoln on the day he was assassinated! Dr. Raul Rojas at Freie University in Berlin has developed a driverless computer-controlled Volkswagen Passat to navigate the city's streets!
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Templo S.U.D. over 11 years ago
And the SS has done a well done job projecting a few Commanders in Chief (they did their best with Garfield, McKinnley and Kennedy).
hawgowar over 11 years ago
Wasn’t Garfield killed by the lack of medical sanitation at the time? Dr.s used to use threads from their frock coats as suture material. Although in Vietnam, I had to suture myself (lower thigh near knee) once since Doc (our corpsman) was busy with far more seriously wounded guys. Still, I dusted it after with the sulfur pack we all had, and doused it with Tabasco from C-Rations before I started sewing, because the NVA had a bad habit of dipping their bayonets in dukey. Hurt like Holy Hades for about three minutes then got numb – never got infected, either. Even germs don’t like Tabasco. Too bad Garfield didn’t have Tabasco available.
edclectic over 11 years ago
The only cold blooded mammal known to exist? Let me introduce my ex-wife.
Dkram over 11 years ago
Naked Mole Rats live in a hive like environment, and have a queen..\\//_
Mneedle over 11 years ago
I have one of those. Maybe they are sisters.
tototu over 11 years ago
Google has driverless vehicles on the highways throughout the SF bay area.
goweeder over 11 years ago
“Looks like Ole Abe was a day late and a dollar short. He’d probably been trying to get it past Congress for months.”………………………………………………..My response was similar to yours;
A day late and a life cut short.. Also. I’m sure you’re right that it was in committee for months – just as politics works today. I’ve always wondered how a human mind can work so slowly (and why we always seem to vote for them.)
boldyuma over 11 years ago
It was either on Jeopardy or Who Wants To Be a Millionaire this past week that Lincoln’s Secretary Of State was stabbed the same day Lincoln was shot. I didn’t ever hear about that.I’ll have to investigate further to see if he survived..Yes, I know Lincoln didn’t..
gocomicsmember over 11 years ago
As pointed out above, even if the creation of the Secret Service had happened months earlier, it would have had no effect on Lincoln’s assassination, because that was not what they were created to prevent. Makes an interesting sidenote to history, but it is still, in some ways, irrelevant.