Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 03, 2012
October 02, 2012
October 04, 2012
Transcript:
Ripley's Believe It or Not! 32 teams competed in the annual swamp soccer championships in Beijing in July 2012! The Saint Lucia Racer, a snake found on Saint Lucia Island in the Caribbean, is the world's rarest snake! It was previously declared extinct, and currently there are only 18 left in the wild! Ingesting less than a gram of the dust of the radioactive isotope polonium-210 can kill a person!
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roscoedog55 about 12 years ago
Radish you say I shouldn’t smoke?Pipe tobacco is now being rolled into cigarettes. To save the users the the 5 dollars for a regular pack of smokes.Is pipe tobacco any less radioactive?
Puddleglum2 about 12 years ago
Strangling can kill a person, too!
Puddleglum2 about 12 years ago
Isn’t ‘swamp soccer’ an oxymoron? Usually, they are very low-scoring games.
runar about 12 years ago
Polonium poisoning isn’t as dramatic as the illustration in the panel. It’s causes a lingering case of radiation sickness that could last for weeks. Polonium 210 has a half-life of 138 days, so if you’re worried about your tobacco, just let it sit for a few years before you use it to let the polonium decay (it turns to lead 206 – isn’t that healthy?.
Stephen Gilberg about 12 years ago
I was about to use it in an eating contest.
barefoottech about 12 years ago
$5 for a PACK of cigarettes. BARGAINTry $16 for a pack of 20 in Australia
cannuck Premium Member about 12 years ago
missed by a factor of 1 million. One microgram is fatal!