Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 02, 2013
Transcript:
Samuel Tilden lost the 1876 US Presidential election to Rutherford B Hayes despite receiving 51.5% of the vote! Tim Eater X Janus of New York City ate 2 gallons of chili in just 6 minutes to win Ben's Chili Bowl's world chili eating championship in October 2012! The Ukrainian Navy is training dolphins for armed naval combat!
el8 over 11 years ago
Feed those dolphins a bowl of Ben’s chili and they’ll be stinkbombs sure to gas the enemy at a rate of 50% or more!
linsonl over 11 years ago
There are some ways to get your fifteen minutes of fame that are simply not worth it.
upanddown17 over 11 years ago
Hayes won by only 1 electoral vote.
Vermont Premium Member over 11 years ago
Deciding Tilden-Rutherford was Justice Scalia’s warmup to Gore-Bush.
fixer1967 over 11 years ago
The Electoral College is a legal way to rig the presidential election. It was designed solely for that propose. The public is just fooling themselves if the think they have a say in who is president. The Electoral College just gives us a false feeling that our votes matter when it comes to the presidential election. The Electoral College needs to be gotten rid of but that will never happen.
jack fairbanks over 11 years ago
only burns twice. like they say, “prayin’ for a splash”.
tuslog64 over 11 years ago
PETA is not active in Eastern Europe?Remember the bat bomb of WWII?
tuslog64 over 11 years ago
With many people of the world starving, what is being proven by these eating contests? Didn’t Guiness stop publishing these events?
tuslog64 over 11 years ago
Re the electorial college:Someone did research on past elections, and found that other methods of selecting president would sometimes have favored the Democrats, and sometimes the Republicans.Ie, someone could fight to change the system, and then have it work against him!
goweeder over 11 years ago
You got that nail directly on its head!
Red_Fez over 11 years ago
Is it true that Tim’s favorite song is “Burning Ring of Fire”?
captainofgondor over 11 years ago
The supposed purpose of the Electoral is to even out the heavily populated areas and the empty ones. Unfortunately, it seems to have the opposite result – if you live in state with a low number, your vote doesn’t much count.