Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 03, 2014
September 02, 2014
September 04, 2014
Transcript:
It would take 75,000 years for our fastest spacecraft, Voyager 1, traveling at 38,000 mph, to reach Proxima Centauri, the star nearest to our sun. Yummmmm! Los Angeles restaurant Choco Chicken served fried chicken cooked in chocolate with chocolate ketchup and white chocolate butter. Sniff Sniff In the 1970s, British spies plan to install gerbils and airports to sniff out terrorists- the animals can detect the smell of adrenaline in human sweat.
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Simon_Jester over 10 years ago
“The Gerbils are going crazy sir. Is it terrorists?”“No, just Richard Gere.”
athomas917 over 10 years ago
I thought the Pluto New Horizons probe was faster.
Brown Leghorn over 10 years ago
How is it we will not admit that most terrorists have that Mid East look, and it is not even polite to stare at them without even an inquisitive expression?
bookworm0812 over 10 years ago
BLAAAARGH! That chicken sounds horrendous! I like friend chicken and I like chocolate, but not TOGETHER. People DO realize that combining two great things does not always make another great thing, right? Maybe this would taste good to a pregnant woman, or something.
sdjamieson Premium Member over 10 years ago
What did you learn today?
A chocolate-covered gerbil leaving from Heathrow Airport would take 75,000 years to reach a chicken restaurant in Los Angeles.
moe_the_cat over 10 years ago
Gerbil: $2.99Gerbil Whisperer: $110,000 per year
xall2h1 over 10 years ago
That chicken wing sounds DISGUSTING! Who would buy that?
tlynnch over 10 years ago
Security guards watching hundreds of video monitors get bored. How much more boring would it be to watch video of gerbils? 1000x?