Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 09, 2015

And WHY did Mr. Easton have a dart’s tip in his nose for almost half a century?

Looks like the Starbuck’s people have their work cut out for them.

That’s only because museums had a head start

Because you can still go to ‘smalltown USA’ and find Dairy Queen instead of McD’s and a ‘coffee shop’ instead of Starbucks, and you will find at least 2 museums there…

Of course we’re counting things like ‘The Venerable Museum of Ex-Presidents’ ToeNail Clippings’ here – no other way they could total over 21,000 museums…Strange that there are twice as many McDonald’s as Starbucks, though..I’d have thought the opposite – in my podunk there are only 3 McD’s but 8 standalone Starbucks and 5 or 6 more inside supermarkets, and we are definitely NOT cosmopolitan.

Fraternal twins are way more common than identical, yet when people hear the word “twins,” they immediately think, identical.

When my twins were born in the middle 1970’s I learned that about 1 birth in 100 resulted in twins. I wonder where Mr. Ripley’s minions got their 1 in 75. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/health/research/twin-births-in-the-us-like-never-before.html?_r=0 says from 1980 to 2009, according to a recent report by the National Center for Health Statistics, the rate of twin births rose 76 percent. Now about one in 30 babies born in the United States is a twin.

That museum fact actually does surprise me. Even knowing that McD’s isn’t as prominent as it used to be.

Twins happens. My grndfather was a twin, I have twin sisters (11 yrs older than me) and now twin grand-dtrs,plus two of my cousins had twins.My high school class of ’57 had 54 graduates – with four sets of twins! (Though no triplets yet)

But did it cure his stuffy nose?

At least he saved a fortune on medical bills.