Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 23, 2023

What Yosh calls “adventurous,” the cat calls “kidnapped.”

“Oh that Christopher Columbus, Sailed the seas without a compass.”

Believe it or not, Christopher Columbus was never in North America.

Our junior hockey team in our town is called the Vikings. But they aren’t that old!

That fact about the Vikings is a no-brainer I learned it in grade school.

Wow, a real life version of Harry And Tonto.

And it’s believed that an Irish saint known as Brendan the Navigator sailed to North America and back sometime in the 6th century.

Ha ha, hey Sven, historian of future will be fooled when we build our ship with these big many driftwood from big storm. They think we go there and build but who know where? Maybe they make thing up. Ha ha. ~ Ragnar of Lofoten.. maybe, ha ha

May the horde be with you, and gesundheit.

But, like most men, they refused to admit they were lost. They hung out in a pub in Iceland and pillaged early England to assuage their fragile egos.

I thought everybody realized that the Vikings were here before Columbus.

I spent $116,000 filling up the tank yesterday…believe it or not.

And the Egyptians before them as far west as California.

Christopher Columbus never saw North America or landed on its shores. Why do folks keep pushing this falsehood. (Polite form of Lie.)

I recall a PBS documentary back in 2016 that showed a viking burial mound in Newfoundland, that was estimate to be from aound 800-1300 AD

Don’t tell that to Judge Michael Musmanno.

Only now do I notice that RBION no longer uses nearly sideways exclamation points.

Is it important to know where a Narwhal has been and what he’s been eating, and should someone waste the time trying to find out.

I guess the cancel culture crowd will be demanding we change the name of Columbus Ohio to Erikson, Ohio…

The Vikings sailed to America because there were no Starbucks in Norway at the time.

Anyone who graduated from high school knows that the Vikings were here before Columbus.