Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 07, 2017

Sally found WHAT in the egg? As in I’ve no idea what cubic zirconia is.

Polo is a sport that still forbids people from playing left-handed.

Back then, they believed that left-handedness was sinister and gauche.

Wow! That stone must be worth 10s of dollars.

So that they weren’t sinister?

…after she put it there.

How Batty can you get?

I call hoax on the diamond laying hen. The digestive tract and reproductive tract don’t cross. A stone that a chicken eats is not going to get into the ovary or reproductive tract where the egg is formed. Even if the hen pooped the stone at the same time it laid the egg, by that point there is a shell barrier.

there were asthma cigarettes, but there was no dr batty producing them. the guy on the advertisement is apparently Earl Sawyer Sloan

The drawing looks like the left hander struck himself in the head with the sword.

In addition to smoking cigarettes, it was recommended that one sit in a cold draft and drink strong coffee. The latter actually does work.

Left-handed swordsman, though rare, had the advantage of surprise when attacking out-in-the-open – they had fought (and trained against) more right-handed opponents than their adversary had fought left-handed opponents. Their attack whenascending standard spiral staircases was also not blocked by the wall.The warlike Clan Kerr trained to use their weapons with their left hands.

I had always heard that my great grandmother smoked cannabis for her asthma. This is what I found when I googled ingredients for asthma cigarettes.

They didn’t contain tobacco, but crushed and dried herbs from the nightshade family of plants called solanaceae, which included datura strammonium, atropa belladonna, the hyoscyamus niger, Lobelia inflata and similar plants. Indian Hemp and Cannabis are similar herbs also included in some brands.Such plants contained an alkaloid called Atropine that causes mild bronchodilation, and made breathing easier. Smoking wasn’t considered hazardous; it was actually seen as beneficial.

I wonder if Shigeru Miyamoto knew that when he created his “western fantasy” game “The Legend of Zelda”? (Because, with the exceptions of the Wii games, Link is left-handed)

The reason medieval knights could not be left handed was because in justing the rider held the lances with his right hand and arm and road by his opponent on the left side. btw, it’s the same reason they drive on the left side in England.

My mother used medicated cigarettes approximately in the 1930s. They contained an herb called cubeb (no tobacco), and it helped with her asthma. When she couldn’t get them one time, she tried a Camel cigarette and found it helpful, as well as leading to a long-lasting cigarette habit.