Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 19, 2014

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    Michael Thorton  over 10 years ago

    The mouldy bread bit isn’t as daft as it sounds. Many moulds that grow on bread are penicillium strains.

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    Jonni  over 10 years ago

    I’m not sure about the configuration of the helicopter in this picture but I remember seeing a small single seat helicopter at the NASA museum in Washington DC.

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    stlmaddog5  over 10 years ago

    I just wonder what Tom Denniss does for income.

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    EmilioLizardo  over 10 years ago

    Penicillin or ergot – careful, guys.

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    Kerovan  over 10 years ago

    Penicillin was originally developed when a mine collapsed causing injuries. One wound was infected so badly it was guaranteed to develop gangrene. The doctor thought nothing could be done but an old woman brought some green moldy bread and told them to bind it to the wound. The doctor was so amazed that he investigated the bread and developed Penicillin from it. One of, if not the actual first antibiotic. .That’s why green bread mold is actually cultivated in technologically primitive cultures. Like today, early doctors scoffed at the old ways, but Dr Alexander Fleming took a chance and made the discovery that the old ways actually work. Not all of them admittedly (leeches) but most of them.

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    Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr   over 10 years ago

    de Lackner HZ-1 Aerocycle, November 1954

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    tuslog64  over 10 years ago

    Egyptians were better at medicine than our ancestors in Europe during the Dark Ages. (Thousand or so years later!)

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    joeywolf  over 10 years ago

    Let’s see. 26.2 miles times 622 = abot 16,300 miles, all right; but the earth is about 25,000 in circumference! Where did he run?

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    beerhunter12  over 10 years ago

    Must be nice not to have a life and be able to run around the world.

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    boldyuma  over 10 years ago

    I remember the old Dick Tracy comics(1960’s) that had a one man air car;;;here’s a photo..http://dicktracy.wikia.com/wiki/Special:NewFiles?file=AirCar02.jpg&until=20131215051846

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    carmeldenniss  over 10 years ago

    Check out www.tomsnextstep.com to find to about Tom Denniss journey.

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