Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 15, 2016
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Transcript:
In May 2016, for the very first time, monkeys in Tanzania and Kenya were spotted eating bats. Although separated by Belgium, France and the Netherlands share a land border- on the island of St. Martin in the Caribbean! In the 18th century, the amount of time young people spent reading books was cause for concern and thought to be a dangerous epidemic!
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Tossle Premium Member over 8 years ago
Did they run out of bananas?
Templo S.U.D. over 8 years ago
A reading epidemic in the 1700s? What did the non-readers at the time do for recreation?
therese_callahan2002 over 8 years ago
Today, books have been replaced by Kindle.
BiggerJ over 8 years ago
“In the days before video games, kids read books to rot their brains.”
sarazan7 over 8 years ago
I didn’t know monkeys ate meat.
Chad Cheetah over 8 years ago
And now, people think NOT reading books is an epidemic
SeaFox10 over 8 years ago
Oh, great! That should bring in more diseases when Africans keep having sex with monkeys! ☺
usnelsons Premium Member over 8 years ago
Ah, the missing link to the Ebola virus carrier.
Radish... over 8 years ago
Reading will rot your mind, you should be plowing in the field.
The Sinistral Bassist Premium Member over 8 years ago
I’d be more concerned about that claw she’s holding the book with
Peam Premium Member over 8 years ago
It might have been a crooked-finger epidemic rather than a book-reading one.
fuzzbucket Premium Member over 8 years ago
They must have been fruit bats.
Stephen Gilberg over 8 years ago
Kinda puts “Beauty and the Beast” in perspective: The townsfolk saw Belle as a couch potato, not an intellectual. Maybe someday, people will wish kids watched more TV.