Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 23, 2011
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Transcript:
In the 1980s, Nigeria built a new capital city, Abjja, from the ground up in the middle of the country as a symbol of unity! Gary Weddle of East Wenatoee, Wash., USA, vowed not to shave his face and tell Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed or captured. He kept his promise and left his beard untouched from 2001 until bin Laden's death on May 1, 2011! Nimbochromis Livingstonii, a fish found in Africa's Lake Malawi, has the blotchy appearance of a rotting fish and lays motionless on the lakebed to attract the scavengers on which it preys!
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FatTonyBalducci about 13 years ago
I vowed to not shower until Bin Laden was caught!…..I was just recently allowed to be around people again.
Puddleglum2 about 13 years ago
Rotting fish, what are you, PREY tell?
runar about 13 years ago
An old story – around the year 870, Harald, king of Vestfold, asked the dauthter of the king of Hordaland to marry him. She told him that she couldn’t marry anyone who wasn’t man enough to be king of all of Norway. Harald took a vow to neither cut nor comb his hair until he had conquered all the neighboring kingdoms. People called him “Harald Shaghair”. When he became king of all of Norway, he had his hair done and married his princess, and when people saw him, they changed his nickname to “Harald Finehair”.
jkhandy about 13 years ago
If only the American People showed even half as much devotion to ridding their own country of the tyrants robbing them on a daily basis!!
tuslog64 about 13 years ago
About time to move our own capital to the center of the country, like maybe just west of Hannibal, Mo.