Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 21, 2024

♫ Yes we have some bananas! ♫

♫ We have some bananas today! ♫

If it were only children that stare at their phones 24/7. Adults do it also because they get a notification that somebody said something in their FB acct

Children seem to run their mouth much faster though.

Since we are talking about teeth ~ ~

A man and his wife go to the dentist to get a rotten tooth removed.

The man tells the dentist, “Look doc, I don’t have much money, so no painkillers. No gas, no needles, nothing. Just get in, yank out the tooth, and we’ll get out of here.”

“I wish more of my patients had your fortitude,” says the doctor admiringly. “Which tooth is rotten?”

The man turns to his wife and says, “Open your mouth Dear.”

It takes ME a lot longer to run a mile now than it did 30 years ago, too.

One time I took 31 seconds longer to run two miles than I did 91 years ago.

May the Lord be with you as he is with me.

Not my teeth! Haven’t had sugar in five years, no cavities since.

But they’ll get their (drum roll) Participation Trophy!

I think it used to take us 7-8 minutes in 8th grade.

Don’t remember ever running a mile. Don’t know why I would do such a silly thing.

Give gorillas tastier food, and they’ll sing like Pavarotti

Thirty years ago, a mile was uphill and in the snow. That tells you how bad it’s gotten. ;-p

Tooth enamel ranks 5 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, which means it’s about as hard as steel.

Gorillas and other ape species native to Africa do not eat bananas as a part of their normal diet. Bananas are indigenous to the tropical portions of India, Southeast Asia and northern Australia, and were brought to South America by the Portuguese in the early 16th century.

And that’s the tooth!

Key word, average. There are still a lot of fit children today.

Yes about athletes not being as good, overall! Don’t use pros, or elite colleges as reference. Use high school athletics to compare. There even is as much determination or devotion given. Also the military is a good place to compare.

30 years ago kids were outside playing now they are indoors with their phones and video games getting fat so they will have diabetes when they are 30

I’ve been known to hum or sing the praises of great food also.

I would have thought the human head was harder than tooth enamel, given how hard it is to get anything through their thick skulls.

Tell that to MY teeth

I was 17 30 years ago. I could not run a mile then, and I certainly can’t do it now.

With inflation, a mile is longer these days.