Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 26, 2021

That’s quite a genealogical gem with that WWII post.

I was curious how they “accidentally” captured a 600-pound tuna. It turns out that the fish got tangled up in their lobster traps.

I’ve got news for that Pharmaceutical company, “YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TOOTH!!”

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but not always.

A game warden sees an old man going out fishing alone and asks if he can go along.

The old man reluctantly agreed and rows out to the middle of the lake. Then he opens his tackle box, pulls out a stick of dynamite, lights it and tosses it into the lake. After it goes off the boat is surrounded with dead fish and the old guy starts scooping up the bodies.

The warden is incensed and says ’That’s illegal and a thousand dollar fine when we get to shore!’ So the old guy pulls out another stick of dynamite, lights it and hands it to the warden saying..

‘You want to just talk all day or are you going to start fishing?’.

Ba da BOOM!!!

Until next time.

Somehow I misread that one item to mean the letter writer’s family was related to the letters.

After finding a stack of World War II letters at an antique mall in Rigby, Idaho, and reuniting them with the writer’s family, she found out that she was distantly related and came to the conclusion that father, Cpl Handsome Hanson really got around. If you know what I mean and I think you do.

350 homeless people in Belfast, Maine, died of mercury poisoning after eating tuna in a soup kitchen. They were all listed as Covid deaths by the CDC.

And that’s how Zen Hanson found out why his ancestors kept the writer at a distance, abandoned the unopened letters, and move to another state :D

25 foot 7 inch chimichanga? Deadpool would be ecstatic.

We’re all related to each other, some more distant than others.

Take care, may disappointed elderly 23andMe member Elmer “Now I’ve Got Kids All Over The World Calling Me At All Hours” Hatchett be with you, and gesundheit.

Did that giant tooth come with some sort of plaque?

I am very surprised the soup kitchen took the tuna. I know local hunters try to donate and are turned away because the animals are not federally inspected or something.

How do you accidentally catch a 600 lb tuna?

That’s a lotta tuna noodle casserole!

I didn’t know a Tuna Fish could get that big, wow

A 600# Tuna would sell for $3M USD in the Tokyo Fish Market. If the good Captain donated the proceeds, it could have built the largest homeless shelter in Maine, and fed and comforted 300 families for months; if not years.

Seeing the post about WW2 letters, made me wish my mom had kept the letters I sent her, when I was in Nam.