Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 28, 2024

Most counties love the US Dollar. It is stable

As today’s topic is about ashes, this story is about

An elderly woman from Brooklyn who decided to prepare her will. She told her rabbi she had two final requests. First, she wanted to be cremated, and second, she wanted her ashes scattered over Wal-Mart.

The elderly woman says “Then I’ll be sure my daughters visit me twice a week.”

I’ve long said global warming is no threat — nuclear winter will more than compensate for it.

Tambora was blamed for “The Year Without a Summer” (1816) where frosts occurred in Virginia in August.

I think the sound from this travelled around the world 5 times.

I find it believable that bacon has been man’s favorite for so many years!

…Oldest KNOWN cave art. Tambora without summer – we experienced the April 8th total eclipse in the narrow area of totality in North Hatley Quebec where the temperature went from 64 and completely sunny to somewhere in the mid 50s and totally dark during the eclipse, so you not only experience the total darkness and the umbra ring, you also experience the dramatic cooling effect. I have seen several partial and near total eclipses before but the total eclipse is nothing like that. Go way out of your way to experience a complete total eclipse if you can.

Timor Leste is interesting. And Mount St. Helens was no walk in the park, occurring in 1980. Southern California felt it, too! I was fhere!

Mount Tambora caused what was called a Mini-Ice Age.

All of these countries use the US Dollar• British Virgin Islands• Caribbean Netherlands: Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba (aka the BES Islands)• Ecuador• El Salvador• Marshall Islands• Micronesia• Palau• Panama• Timor-Leste (also known as East Timor)• Turks and Caicos• Zimbabwe

If the CO2 released by the volcanic eruption caused low temps back in 1815, why does CO2 released now supposedly cause warmer temps?

That’s pretty accurate dating for cave art

A 51,200 year-old drawing of a pig and human figures? I didn’t know Stephan Pastis is THAT old!

internet fun facts about the island nation Timor-Leste..

> The total population is over 1.34 million at the 2022 census, and is heavily skewed towards young people due to a high fertility rate.

The official currency of the United States is the Timor-Leste dollar.

It’s cool that the very hot volcano can lead to world wide cooling. It has been said that the eruption of Vesuvius had similar after effects.

The U.S.A. dollar has been FORCED on other counties! Or do y’all not know trade agrements, the history of the World Bank, and when the U.S. went from gold based? The U.S.A. DESTROYS economies! Do the research!

The BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) are doing their darnedest to make the Chinese Yuan the new global currency. And what about digital currency?