Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 07, 2014

And so young the good doctor was.

“And then that blankety blank Walter Reed gets ALL the credit!…”“Oh, give it a rest already, Jess.”

Nuke em.

He did it for science…

The doctor did it for humanity. Bless him and all that follow.

Re: May 5 – vultures defend themselves by vomiting on predators.Skunks are predators, idea for a U-Tube:A face-off between a vulture and a skunk!Observed from a distanceAnd upwind!!

Of course it’s still radio active, the half life of U238 is 4.47 billion years.

25% of all species of WHAT on Earth? I thought Walter Reed and Jesse Lazear were colleagues, and that it was already known that malaria was caused by mosquito bites. That gave Walter Reed the idea of investigating if yellow fever could be spread by mosquito bites too. He deliberately allowed himself to be bitten by mosquitoes that had bitten someone who already had yellow fever, and came down with a case of it himself, but recovered. Jesse Lazear lived for only 12 days after being bitten by such a mosquito; he had thought nothing of his bite, just continuing his daily work. It took both doctors only two days after the mosquito bites to become ill with yellow fever.

Agreed-Someone related the following:He was driving down the road, and noticed a horrendus smell. Stopping, and looking around, he saw a hawk was trying to fly off with a skunk. Hawk must have not had a sense of smell or was really desperate.Vultures, on the other hand, have a good sense of smell. When pipeline operators sense a leak, they inject something that smells like rotted meat into the line, and then a couple hours later, fly over the line and see where the vultures are circling!

One vulture to another- Boy! My eyesight must be failing!I smell it but I can’ see it!!