Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 12, 2015

I wonder how goes that Israeli tree ten years later. Why did Alexander eat his deformed hip anyway? As for that 99-year-old story of the high wave of beer, I bet Andy Capp would’ve liked to be involved in it.

On January 15, 1919 a molasses storage tank burst in Boston, Mass., dumping 2,300,000 gallons of molasses. The wave of molasses was 25 feet high, traveling at an estimated 35 miles per hour. The molasses killed 21 people, injured 150 and killed numerous horses. It knocked buildings from their foundations and damaged the elevated railway.

Yeah, I remember reading about the Great Boston Molasses flood, so I googled it to get information. I probably read about it in Ripley’s Believe it or Not.

The flood caused one of the first class action lawsuits in the United States. The tank was found to be defective in many ways. The tank leaked so badly that the owners painted it brown to hide the leaks.

Now I have to search for the 2,000 year old seeds. I don’t remember seeing anything on this, but I hope they were Cedars Of Lebanon, which I believe to be extinct.

Dateline, Kibbutz Ketura. March 24, 2015. Ten years later the tree, a date palm, has become a father. It successfully dated a female to produce a datelet.

More of the seeds have sprouted and at least two of them are female. So reports National Geographic.http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/150324-ancient-methuselah-date-palm-sprout-science/

It is a type of North African date palm.

I guess if there’s one form of cannibalism we’ll allow in humans, it’s partial self-cannibalism.I seem to recall an episode of “I Dream of Jeannie” about a discovery of long-gone seeds. Must’ve been inspired by the news.

Ok, the hip guy. Do we really need to share crap like that? Because that’s not art, that’s sickness.

I know many people who would consider a 15 foot high wave of beer Heaven.

Alexander first asked to eat his brain, but they told him he would starve to death.

So….if he was eating himself, was it still cannibalism?

And as far as that beer wave, my best friend would have been a believer in miracles. Too bad that happened 162 years ahead of his time.

I chew my toenails and fingernails..That’s as far as I want to go(I know,I know TMI)