Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 08, 2015

What very nice royalty-themed factoids.

Is Anne Hathaway available for the Macy’s princess movie?

The very same beetles that are the source of the red dye currently used as food coloring.

So…you think it has nothing to do with not wanting to be dead?Incidentally, where does the red dye for those poppies come from?

Big lips? My thought exactly!

That portrait of the Queen makes her look like a cockney bouncer in drag.

Note for the Artist : here is a link so you know what she looks like for the next time you need to draw her; http://bernews.com/2015/09/dd-premier-congratulates-queen-elizabeth-ii/

I once had a stamp album given to me from my grandma, who was a big-time collector for decades. It must have been an old album, ‘cuz it had headings for what once were kingdoms, principalities, palatinates and colonies. Example: Baden, Luebeck, Wuerttemberg, Tuscany, Liguria, French Equatorial Africa, French Indochina, Danish West indies, US Philippine Islands, etc. Iran was Persia. And No Pakistan, as this album was produced well before India’s independence, much less her subsequent war of partition. -I wish I had thought to ask her if she collected any stamps from the Old Confederacy.

Prince Charles is now the longest sitting heir apparent.

So then: beetle juice!

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