Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 09, 2014
February 08, 2014
February 10, 2014
Transcript:
A hotel in Zanzibar, Africa, has a suite that floats in the sea and has an underwater bedroom! In the 2nd century A.D.- the city of Hatra, Iraq, fought off a Roman army by dropping clay pots filled with poisonous scorpions down from its walls. The Danish Nobel prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr lived on the grounds of the Carlsberg Brewery in Copenhagen and received a lifetime supply of beer from them.
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edclectic over 10 years ago
I can use this factoid!I’ve been trying to convince my wife that beer makes me smarter.
corpcasselbury over 10 years ago
Actually, Iran was Persia, not Iraq.
aimlesscruzr over 10 years ago
One afternoon at Cheers, Cliff Clavin was explaining the Buffalo Theory to his buddy Norm. and here’s how it went:Well ya see, Norm, it’s like this… A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.
In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first.
In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That’s why you always feel smarter after a few beers.
Mneedle over 10 years ago
There is a hotel in the Florida Keys that has underwater suites.
Cminuscomics&stories Premium Member over 10 years ago
A local nuthouse had on their billboard: Who need’s health care when you have Jesus. (I am not making that up.) But Bohr’s lifetime supply of free beer has gotta be a topper!
Simon_Jester over 10 years ago
As I read this, I’m sitting here, looking at an empty Carlsberg can.
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr over 10 years ago
How much beer would a physicist chugIf a physicist would chug beer?The Danes are a progressive people.They know how to reward good work.
Frogman_tg over 10 years ago
Picky, picky, picky, @aimlesscruzr is talking about American BUFFALO. They are buffalo by common usage since the 18th (?) century. If they were bison then a city in western New York would be “Bison” instead of Buffalo.
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr over 10 years ago
Pretty sure Cliff Clavin would be referring to the American bison also commonly known as the American buffalo.
Scott S over 10 years ago
How do you say “Luckiest man on the face of the earth” in Danish?
chabias over 10 years ago
You got that right! Reminds me of a song I heard years ago. “The Drunker I Get The Better They Look”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsz5JT285mE