Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 19, 2017
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February 20, 2017
Transcript:
For Sale In 2006, an Australian man tried to sell New Zealand on eBay! Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez's wife, Mercedes, placed a yellow rose on his writing desk every day for 55 years. Cape Three Points on the Gulf of Guinea, near Takoradi in Ghana, West Africa, is known as The land nearest nowhere because it is the nearest place to the point where zero latitude meets zero longitude at zero altitude. Every golden hamster in captivity is descended from a single pair captured in Syria in 1930.
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Templo S.U.D. almost 8 years ago
The pair of Syrian golden hamster must be having a lot of descendants after 87 years.
Bilan almost 8 years ago
If you bought New Zealand, does the new continent (Zealandia) come with it?
derdave969 almost 8 years ago
That’s some serious inbreeding for the hamsters. Wonder if anyone’s asked the NSF for a multimillion grant to study what’s going on in their gene pool.
J Short almost 8 years ago
That would explain their desire to play the banjo.
The Pro from Dover almost 8 years ago
Dum de dum de dum de dum de da!
wjones almost 8 years ago
What was the asking price or was it up for bid.
Font Lady Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Believe it or not? Not. Elephants only have 2 knees just like all the other quadruped mammals. The two front legs have elbows and wrists. Don’t the Ripley’s people have google?
Charlie Fogwhistle almost 8 years ago
Cape Three Points, a/k/a “Zero-Zero Island”. Nearly. Signed, Colonel Bleep.