Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 18, 2014

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 10 years ago

    I have one word concerning torpedo juice: yuck.

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    Sidhekin  almost 10 years ago

    The suits were not left outside the lander, you know.

    Every time they re-entered the lander, they brought moon dust inside.

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    BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    An ex-navy man once told me told me of sailors who drank shoe polish after filtering it through a piece of bread.I’m not sure I believe that.

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    BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    Does moon dust smell like black powder, or smokeless?

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    Charlie Fogwhistle  almost 10 years ago

    I had a professor once who had been on a submarine in WWII who regaled the class (early 1970’s) with tales of him and/or his shipmates drinking just about everything, including Aqua Velva aftershave. Not sure whether I believed him, but I sure wouldn’t recommend it.

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    jack fairbanks  almost 10 years ago

    And here I thought our love of gunpowder was true and genuine.

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    jack fairbanks  almost 10 years ago

    Not ’til it gets to Europe… Pa-Rump-Pump!

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    Brown Leghorn  almost 10 years ago

    We put gyro cleaner alcohol in the coke cup dispenser, it was also 180 proof. It was used because it left no residue on the segments. We were allotted 5 gallons per month, more than enough to clean the Sperry compass and repeaters. Remember this, the British Navy got Rum Rads so we had to adapt and compensate at sea

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    loner34  almost 10 years ago

    NOTE: 180 proof is 90%

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    linsonl  almost 10 years ago

    I once worked at a radio station where the staff had convinced management that we needed pure grain alcohol to clean the tape heads. Heee heee heee.

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    louieglutz  almost 10 years ago

    on tin cans we would open a #10 can of peaches and put it behind the boiler.

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    Scott S  almost 10 years ago

    Buzz Aldrin commented about that in a Readers Digest article. He said the interior of the Eagle smelled like gunpowder, it was very cramped, & sleep was impossible.

    But they still needed to be on top of their game in a few hours when they would lift off to rejoin the CSM orbiting the moon.

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    paulsub63  almost 10 years ago

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    Petemejia77  almost 10 years ago

    The begining of the film"The Master" showed Joaquin Phoenix as a sailor in the navey after WW2 making that crazy drink. Couldn’t believe guys did that.

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    cb795  almost 10 years ago

    as long as the ethanol was not denatured it is drinkable. 180 proof is 90% alcohol—-pretty potent. Even a 1:1 dilution with fruit juice would make a 90 proof drink….

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    sdjamieson Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    Um, weren’t the astronauts wearing their helmets?

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    Brown Leghorn  almost 10 years ago

    True, but when the galley hands conspire to supply the ingredients to run a still back aft it is darn near mutiny of Navy Regs!

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    rqs1123  almost 10 years ago

    totally agree

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