Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 08, 2016
December 07, 2016
December 09, 2016
Transcript:
The ocellated ice fish of Antarctica has see through blood! The drug penicillin was once so rare that it was recycled from the urine of treated patients. Chocolate was once eaten as a cure for smallpox.
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Templo S.U.D. about 8 years ago
if only chocolate was found in the northern New World and then the Europeans wouldn’t have given the inhabitants smallpox
charliefarmrhere about 8 years ago
@TEMPLO—-It doesn’t say if chocolate really cured it though, only that it was tried as a cure. I will have to Google that.
charliefarmrhere about 8 years ago
Just checked on Google—Chocolate did NOT cure smallpox.
tom_wright about 8 years ago
Anybody else here been to the Antarctic? I was on the winter-over party 66-67, never saw an ocellated Ice Fish.
billfrog about 8 years ago
There’s no doubt that the readers of comics are the happiest people on the planet
aimlesscruzr about 8 years ago
I’m not sure what’s worse, the infection or a 2nd generation penicillin
Mostly Water Premium Member about 8 years ago
“The ocellated icefish (Chionodraco rastrospinosus) has gin-clear blood. And it has no scales. And it lives nowhere but the inky depths down to 3,200 feet (1 kilometer) in the icy waters off Antarctica. Other than that, it’s just an ordinary fish.”
— livescience.com
wjones about 8 years ago
If cholate cured smallpox it would have been eradicated by Hershey candy bars. Actually, the last case of smallpox was in 1977 when it was eradicated.
comixbomix about 8 years ago
It doesn’t cure smallpox???Oh well, at least it’s still good to help recover from Dementor attacks…
SeaFox10 about 8 years ago
Couldn’t you just call the blood- “clear”?!?