Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 20, 2018

I still prefer the money to the mouse “tips.”

2,500,000 multiplied by 24 would be what in order to know how many bottles a day that’d be? Then multiply that by how much to know how many bottles a month? Lastly, what would that be yearly?

Let me guess, the mouse says “Say cheese!”, and then grabs the loose tooth before it even comes out.

Plastic bottles are not the only things making our landfills into mountains.

And I’m not one of the Americans that add to that plastic bottle total. If I could, I would even buy my milk in glass and return that. But I can’t so I get it in the paper carton. I hate that we have become a disposable society. My current top of the list hate are those little coffee pods…

Oh, and thank you Jimmy Carter. You were the one that legalized home brewing!

I liked the money, but I didn’t want to meet any fairy that collected teeth; pretty creepy.

We had this bottle thing fixed: we had glass soft drink bottles, water bottles — even five gallon ones. All glass, all returnable. But that was back in the less-environmentally-conscious days, before the sophisticated people of today were in charge.

Of course, we often drank water from a garden hose, then, too, instead of a two dollar plastic bottle.

Soda used to be sold in glass bottles that would be returned, washed and reused. And you could even mix the flavors you put in a carton. But, empty bottles attracted vermin and all it took was one in hundreds of millions of bottles not getting completely cleaned, ie a mouse not being washed out – for disastrous lawsuits.

I’ve been following this coverage for the last few months:

https://news.sky.com/story/head-of-sky-news-john-ryley-why-were-launching-sky-ocean-rescue-and-getting-rid-of-disposable-plastic-in-our-canteens-10739990

This was an interesting part of it:

https://news.sky.com/story/scientists-accidentally-engineer-plastic-eating-enzyme-11334544

Plastic binds carbon into a non-gaseous form. It’s like returning coal to the ground.

Hard to believe about Carter. Guess hospital births weren’t taken for granted before the ’20s.

⇧ the stork brought all the previous presidents…

Ratoncito Pérez is the tooth rat. Al Madrigal mentions him in his comedy special “Shrimpin’ Ain’t Easy”.