Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 12, 2014

I like cashews.

I wonder who said, “Hey let’s roast these and see if that makes them non-poisonous.”

70 million mummies? How was this calculated? Over what period did this happen? If 1% of Egyptians were mummified then Egypt must have had an extremely large population over the period being examined. This beggars belief and seems like the “or not” category.

Cashews can make you fat.

Should’ve run this one on Mummies Day.

The picture of the cashews is wrong. each cashew nut grows at the end of a “cashew” apple. which they make a drink out of.

Only problem with the cashews shown is they don’t grow like that, it looks like this…

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I think he should’ve also included the fact that it’s the only seed that grows outside the fruit….

there go cashew butter from Jif for me.. i like now like almond butter

@Blue Boy – not true about the only fruit where the seed grows outside the main body. You forgot about strawberries…

70 million? I thought only the rich and royalty got mummified.

If they mummified 70 million humans over 3,000 years, that comes to about 64 mummies A DAY. The average population of their civilization over that time was no more than 3 million people, a little more than the population of Brooklyn. If you subtract the huge numbers of peasants, who would not be mummified, you can see how ridiculous and uninformed this “estimate” is.

never mind cashews, who ate the first raw oyster and why?