Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 23, 2019

only one olive?

This was around the time J.S. Bach composed his lesser-known ILL TEMPERED CLAVIER.

Oh the poor cats. Stop torturing them!

I wonder if they ever reused the die?

And were the dice retrieved once the police left?

How do you tune a Katzenklavier?

Human ingeniousity is endless!

I wonder what PETA would have done to Athanasius.I also wonder if that’s where they got the idea for the Friskies cat food commercial. “Meow,meow,…..”

I hope Athanasius Kircher burns in hell for his cruel invention

And thus began the end of enjoyable flying. I would not go close to those flying boxcars these days. Flying in the early days was so enjoyable but has become a pain in more ways and places than one.

The Katzenklavier is a myth found in literature only, never real – like a unicorn.

The game of dreidel, a gambling game, is often played around Hanukkah.

During the Seleucid Empire occupation of Israel a way for scholars to hide that they were studying the Torah, which was punishable by death, was to spin their dreidels, when Seleucid patrols passed by.

Of course, the consultant who recommended that cost them $275K.

Well the Katzenklavier might not be real but there was a Muppaphone https://youtu.be/5rCoseZkII0 and in “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” the Sultan did compose ‘The Torturer’s Apprentice’ https://youtu.be/8sLNOhA7C2Q

They’ve since reduced costs by eliminating salad, meals, and all service. You are cargo, and unpleasant (to the airlines) cargo indeed. They’d much rather see the air marshals escort you out the door before takeoff. They hate you. Their attitude is mirrored by each and every other airline, so you can’t win.

And hard-core gamblers would bet on the score when they passed them…

Loooong before the Christmas caroling dogs, too!

They hired Emo Philips, apparently. ;)

It was written about, but there’s no evidence the Katzenklavier ever actually existed, and thank goodness, because, “when a key on the piano was depressed, a mechanism drove a sharp spike in the appropriate cat’s tail.” Horrible!