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Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 25, 2016
May 24, 2016
May 26, 2016
Transcript:
Arnold Palmer Lake! Lake Balkhash in Kazakhstan is half saltwater and half freshwater! Ancient Egyptians applied electric eels to their skin to cure gout! Whoa! Whoa! Clawdette, a female lobster located in Portland, Maine, has four functioning claws!
Templo S.U.D. almost 9 years ago
Can electric eels can even be found in the Nile? (More meat and butter for the lucky diner to eat Clawdette.)
therese_callahan2002 almost 9 years ago
Shock treatment!
chromosome Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Three left claws! And I complain about having two left feet.
Bill The Nuke almost 9 years ago
If you have gout, you’d understand why they’d try anything.Uh, anyone know where I can order some electric eels?
Chad Cheetah almost 9 years ago
I’ve been to Portland a couple times. I wonder if the lobster is in the ocean, or an aquarium?
kr4tt almost 9 years ago
I think they meant Electric Catfish instead of Electric Eel.
pam Miner almost 9 years ago
How does the lake keep them separate?
Great Wizard Nala almost 9 years ago
I don’t get the reference to A. P. Someone, please explain!
Brown Leghorn almost 9 years ago
That treatment for painful gout must have worked to be remembered in history.
tmgcomics almost 9 years ago
Electric eels live in the Amazon basin. No way ancient Egyptians could have even known about them.Believe it or not!
benbrilling almost 9 years ago
You don’t want to go swimming in the water where Clawdette was born. Probably lots of industrial waste there.
Casey Southards almost 9 years ago
Nothing polluted about that discovery.
Great Wizard Nala almost 9 years ago
@Bilan
Thanks for the explanation; it makes sense to me now!
arthurseery almost 9 years ago
If it is Half Salt-water and half Fresh-water… Isn’t it in fact an Estuary and not a “Lake”?