Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 23, 2024

If you think polar bears are dangerous, you should see bipolaar bears!!

But if I had to guess, I’d say they probably had a sinking feeling.

If you’ve the movie, Frozen, it starts with a group of men harvesting ice for export.

One time I was harvested and exported in the 1801s.

May the Lord be with you as he is with me.

And bi-polar bears can swim nonstop for as long as you don’t know about them.

I thought that these days they would just blast an iceberg into crushed ice

they should be towing icebergs to draught areas for the fresh water, it would also slow ocean rise.I think Richard Pryor invested in a company to do that in Brewster’s Millions

Pretty soon they won’t have to worry about icebergs blocking anything, har har

Why don’t they tow that berg to Martha Stewart’s digs. I hear that she insists on glacial ice, only.

They once found a young reindeer, a prospector and an elf living on one floating iceberg, BION.

Ice was considered a cash crop in the U.S. back then and there was even an entire industry around it.

Yes, I remember the pictorial history books about Rockport and Gloucester, even Boston from the public libraries (and the local newspapers)

Shackleton screwed up.C’mon,admit it at last….

All along the canals back then people would harvest Ice blocks from the canal and store them in Ice Houses (or just caves dug into the side of a hill and covered with sawdust) to sell to boatmen for refrigeration or to people in town.

My home town still has an Ice manufacturer and distributor (though it no longer uses canal water)

I remember in the early 50’s Ice used to be harvested on the St. clair River near Algonac. The Ice blocks were stored in a large barn. saw dust separated the large blocks of ice and it kept frozen through most of the spring and summer. That ice was cut from the frozen river.

Tugboats tugging! BELIEVE IT OR NOT!!!