Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 16, 2019

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 5 years ago

    What would headphones 109 years be used for if they weren’t sold to the Navy or any of the other military branches? Listening to music (on the Gramophone) privately, yes, but seriously.

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    eromlig  about 5 years ago

    Those boneheads…

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    Radish...   about 5 years ago

    I’m lucky if my ear buds last a week.

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    DigitalJim  about 5 years ago

    In the middle ages Christmas was a drunken brawl

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    khmo  about 5 years ago

    I think we used those same headphones in the 1965 Navy.

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    Technicholls  about 5 years ago

    Much of what is now observed during Christmas comes from pagan customs. Take a look at:https://www.history.com/topics/christmas/history-of-christmas

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    KevinKoehler  about 5 years ago

    The christmas tree was considered a pagan symbol. It was something that looked alive even though all the other trees around it were “dead”.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  about 5 years ago

    I just realized how whimsical the exclamation points are in this strip. That’s a good thing.

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    Teto85 Premium Member about 5 years ago

    Puritans did not celebrate anything.

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    ex window inspector  about 5 years ago

    ain’t that something times 3

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    jvn  about 5 years ago

    If Puritans didn’t celebrate Christmas, what displays did they put up in their stores from September to December?

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    WCraft Premium Member about 5 years ago

    About that same time period in England, children would purposely be bad so they could get stockings full of coal to help with the heating of the family home…

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    heathcliff2  about 5 years ago

    Explains the navy seen using headphones in silent movies.

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    craigwestlake  about 5 years ago

    I’ve often thought they had those buckles on their hats to keep their brains from falling out of the holes in their heads…

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