Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 22, 2021

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    eromlig  about 3 years ago

    A Seasoned Citizen walks into a fine jewelry store on a Friday afternoon just before closing time with a Sweet Young Thing on his arm; she’s all sorts of giggly-wiggly-pretty and young enough to be his granddaughter…though it’s obvious she’s not.

    “Pick whatever you want, my Dear – the sky’s the limit!” he intones.

    Squealing with delight, she selects a lovely, diamond-studded tennis bracelet with a price tag that would put many family houses to shame. Without any argument, he takes out his checkbook and writes a check for the full amount plus tax.

    “I’m very pleased to have your business, Sir,” the clerk tells him. “But you must know I can’t let you actually have the bracelet until Monday, when the banks open and your check clears.”

    “Oh, that’s alright,” the old codger tells him. “We’re just on our way to my hotel room now anyway. I’ll stop by on Monday.”

    When Monday rolls around, the old man once again enters the jewelry store. “Why, you old fraud! How could you?” fumes the clerk. “There wasn’t a red cent in that account.”

    “Oh, I knew that,” the man explains. “I didn’t come to get the bracelet. I just wanted to thank you for the marvelous weekend I just had.”

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    Bilan  about 3 years ago

    Cat’s ears are also amazing. They can only hear the sound of a can opener.

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 3 years ago

    as a blue-eyed fellow, how new are blue eyes compared to pottery?

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    Technicholls  about 3 years ago

    MUCH BETTER lettering style! Really appreciate the return to the old norm.

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    HunterIsACriminal  about 3 years ago

    Doesn’t anyone remember that it was determined way back in the 1980s that blue eyes are how you determine who the space aliens are among us?

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  about 3 years ago

    But not newer than pot.

    Take care, may prolific black light interpreter Sunflower “Let Peace Break Out” Liberty Dawnord be with you, and gesundheit.

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    JanBic Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Blue eyes are actually NO COLOR. There is no blue pigment. The blue comes from an effect called Rayleigh scattering the same way the sky and sea appear blue.

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    BearsDown Premium Member about 3 years ago

    I find it hard to believe that we change bone atoms yearly. I have bumps and knots from various misadventures that are decades old.

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    Gameguy49 Premium Member about 3 years ago

    When they run out of your brand of atoms, you’re toast! Is that six muscles per ear?

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    cactusbob333  about 3 years ago

    If your eyes are brown, it means you are full; if they are blue, it means you are not yet quite full. Full of what I will not say, but this is all so easy to understand.

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    Space_cat  about 3 years ago

    Better over the course of 12 months than all at once, yikes! That would be painful… But if it did, would we, say, get a day off from work?

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    Space_cat  about 3 years ago

    Say it with me, “Atoms will never replace us, Atoms will never replace us, Atoms will never replace us, Atoms will never replace us…” OMG it’s the “Great replacement” Charlie Brown!

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    poppacapsmokeblower  about 3 years ago

    Blue eyes, the greatest thing since pottery.

    Take that Ms. White (may you live forever)!

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    avid01reader  about 3 years ago

    Pottery has been around almost three times longer than blue eyes! Twenty thousand years vs seven thousand. :0

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    LeeBrenneison  about 3 years ago

    Cats have 32 muscles controlling their ears.

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    tremaine53  about 3 years ago

    Everyone with blue eyes is related.

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    tremaine53  about 3 years ago

    Mars may be closer in size to the Moon than to Earth, but how many muscles does it have controlling it’s ears?!? Ripley’s ALWAYS leaves more questions unanswered than actually addressed!

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    oakie817  about 3 years ago

    if you’re married, you have more than 2 dozen muscles controlling your ears

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    Buckeye67  about 3 years ago

    I feel cheated, the 98% replacements don’t work or look any better than the originals.

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    dv1093  about 3 years ago

    I’ll have to remember that on my next trip to Mars.

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    pearlsbs  about 3 years ago

    Atoms in your body are continually being replaced. Since about 60% of the human body is water you must continually replenish this or you will die from dehydration. This is a continuing change over of hydrogen and oxygen atoms. Atoms that make up body substances including glucose, fats, proteins and others that are continually being replenished by eating. So, 98% doesn’t seen that unusual when you are just talking about atoms. One place I can think of in the body where atoms are not replenished continually is in adult permanent teeth.

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    Stephen Gilberg  about 3 years ago

    And yet our cells take seven or more years to replace.

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    donut reply  about 3 years ago

    What about green eyes?

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    JoshHere  about 3 years ago

    Answering a question that nobody asked: Studies carried out by scientists from the Institute of Forensic Genetics at the University of Copenhagen have concluded that all blue-eyed people share a common ancestor, someone who lived 6,000 to 10,000 years ago near the area by the Black Sea.

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    scpandich  about 3 years ago

    Cue Boat of Theseus discussion.

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    ex window inspector  about 3 years ago

    amazing, incredible, astounding, what a bunch of baloney……guess which one is baloney

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    rice69922  about 3 years ago

    I have blue eyes and I don’t understand

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    DudeHoldMyBearandWatchThis  about 3 years ago

    Earth’s diameter: 7917 milesMar’s diameter: 4212 milesMoon’s diameter: 2159 miles

    Mars is 53.2% the size of Earth. The moon is 51.2% the size of Mars. So it all depends on if you’re talking relative sizes or absolute sizes. Hell, if you want to talk about absolute sizes, you could say “Mars is closer to the size of Ceres than it is to Earth” (difference between Earth and Mars is 3705 miles where-as the difference between Mars and Ceres, which is 587 miles, is 3625 miles.) But I’d say Mars is much closer in size to Earth than it is to Ceres (53.2% vs 13.9% relative difference.)

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    Tym Macaleer  about 3 years ago

    Please stick with this typeface, the one they’ve used the last few weeks is difficult to read!!

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    pbr50138  about 3 years ago

    So 2% are irreplaceable and indestructible too?

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