Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 12, 2018

Urine kidding.

is there nothing liquid bodily waste cannot do?

Guiana border with Brazil: 453.6 miles

I thought Guiana was spelled with a Y, not an I.

Guiana is an overseas department of France; Guyana is an independent country.

I remember Palance doing that!

Ironic that Palance would make the RBION strip.

Well having one strong arm is better than having two weak arms I guess. Yuck yuck.

Good old Jack Palance….once a coal cracker, always a coal cracker.

No wonder old paper is not acid-free.

If we’re France-centered, it should be “Guiana, running alongside Brazil…”

Is England’s longest border “Canada, running alongside the United States?”

Jack Palance. See it here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGxL5AFzzMY

Oh, I never knew Guiana was France!

Gimme that academy award and I’ll do push ups with my single bear hand.

If newspapers used that urine-treated paper…would that be “yellow journalism”?

Interesting that in Europe at least the use of urine (and animal and human dung) to tan leather was gradually phased out in the mid 19th Century and replaced by chromium based tanning solutions. A similar process happened in the paper industry at around the same time but for rather different reasons. Cotton paper manufacture, which did indeed use urine, was gradually overtaken by wood-pulp based paper, whose processing did not need urine. Basically because the huge increase in demand for paper products meant that the used cotton recycling industry could no longer meet the demand, and the wood-pulp paper industry took over.

I remember Palance when he did Ripley’s BION tv series