Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 25, 2017

how hard of a beard tax was it in the first Elizabethan era?

Paul Revere was a barber‽

I like tough steak now!

Gauchos never did that. It’s a myth related to the Huns and the Tartar steak. Gross and unlikely…

Paul Revere was a silversmith!

A famous one, and all his life…

And his father was a silversmith before him.

He also later worked with other metals, and was known for his copper mill, which produced (or maybe invented…. still gotta google it) rolled copper sheathing for ships.

Yes, he learned and did a bit of dentistry, and, being an expert metalworker, made dental tools….

but a barber-surgeon he was not.

To call him a dentist by trade is very odd.

Supposedly, the Huns did the same thing because lukewarm meat tasted better than frozen meat.

This was before the Huns discovered that fire could be used for other purposes besides destruction.

According to a source, there is no way anyone would tenderize meat that way, "But as with many good tales, a little research suggests it’s not true: “The Cambridge Medieval History” of 1924 says the story was started by early chroniclers who saw Mongol horsemen putting thin slices of raw meat beneath their saddles, but that the meat was meant to help heal the horses’ sores rather than fill the men’s stomachs. The book notes that the meat would have been impregnated with sweat and uneatable by the end of the day." Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/06/dining/the-raw-truth-dont-blame-the-mongols-or-their-horses.html?_r=0

So far 2 out of the 3 seem to be “NOT”.

Anyone do research on QE1 taxes?

“I’ll tax the hair on your chinny-chin-chin.”