Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 30, 2015

So how was the can opened almost a half-century before the opener?

funny how that image reminds me of the one in “Dinosaur Comics”

What’s the difference between the Monopoly money and the Federal Reserve money?

True about the can opener. Some foods were canned in cast iron containers. ( I have no idea how.) One of my Grandmother’s never owned a can opener. Cans were opened with a large heavy knife, what we called a butcher knife.One of my Grandmothers had a can sealer and actually canned food in “tin” cans. Tin here being thin sheet steel.It also cut the cans open. Cowboys in the American old west usually opened cans with a hatchet. Take a knife with a heavy blade. Start and one edge of the top of the can and drive the point into the can, with the cutting edge toward the center of the can, to make an “X” in the can top. As the knife enters the can, lever the knife against the outer rim to cut one leg of the “X”. Usually you can cut the entire diameter in one cut. Repeat on all four sides, then using the knife, raise the points in the center to make an opening. Then dump the contents.It easier than it sounds.

It is believed birds evolved from therapods, so their skeletons would have similarities.

To be fair, we don’t expect the reserve to print $500 bills.

The Crazy Russian Hacker (not actually Russian) shows this method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH2NahLjx-Y

Real money printed:The Bureau of Engraving and Printing produces 38 million notes a day with a face value of approximately $541 million. That doesn’t mean there is $541 million more money circulating today than there was yesterday, though, because 95% of the notes printed each year are used to replace notes already in circulation (http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardfinger/2013/09/20/the-federal-reserve-is-making-a-big-mistake/)Per year this is ~ 14 billion notes, or 200 billion dolars

Newer (September 2008 and later) US editions instead provide a total of $20,580 (was $15,140), 240 notesApprox 1 million copies of monopoly sold per year.

Equivalent to 240 million notes, 20 billion dollars.

It is not even close. Does Ripley’s check there facts or do they just regurgitate other’s claims?