Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 27, 2016

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 8 years ago

    Well, Hazel’s second birthday is coming close (I’m almost wondering if she was born in room 9 or 15).

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    PMark  almost 8 years ago

    So? The human body can easily generate enough electricity to light ten bulbs just by walking across a carpet. The real question is for how long? In our case, it’s only for a tiny fraction of a second.

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    therese_callahan2002  almost 8 years ago

    An electric eel’s electricity can also electrocute divers when they’re 20 feet away.

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    scottjsmith.peng  almost 8 years ago

    The date thing only works in the USA because most other countries use the DD/MM/YYYY format, which is far more logical, just like the metric system.

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member almost 8 years ago

    I remember when the Bronx Zoo had eels lighting a lightbulb.

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    wjones  almost 8 years ago

    Himba Women or Space Alien

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    Great Wizard Nala  almost 8 years ago

    My question is are the bulbs incandescent or the more energy efficient CFL’s or LED’s? I think it would make a big difference in the number of bulbs it could light!

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    Great Wizard Nala  almost 8 years ago

    In addition, no where in the description does it tell us the wattage of the of the original bulbs! It would seem to be a big difference if they were 40 or 200 watt bulbs (both standard in a household).

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    Jogger2  almost 8 years ago

    There’s a good chance around 250 people in the world were born at that time. Creating that BION is a matter of finding one of them.

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    Jogger2  almost 8 years ago

    I used to drag my feet across the carpet on a low humidity day, and then discharge the static build up through a fluorescent light tube.

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    pam Miner  almost 8 years ago

    For what reason are some eels electric. Sound dangerous to me.

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    Dan Tooker  almost 8 years ago

    Sorry Hazel, but this is very believable. A baby is born every 8 seconds, 7.5 per minute, 450 per hour, 10,800 per day, according to the United States Census Bureau. Early Happy Birthday wishes anyway. You’re still special!

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  almost 8 years ago

    The Himba of northern Namibia appear bright red in color because they cover their hair and skin in Otjize’a paste made of butterfat and red ocher (a natural earth pigment containing iron oxide)- to protect themselves from the hot sun.

    You can have the darkest skin ever dense with melanin pigmentation and still need further defense. The UV ray accumulate their effects.

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    sml7291 Premium Member almost 8 years ago

    during my time in the military I picked up the habit of using DD MMM YY (.i.e. 27 Nov 16) for dates and still use that format by default. As a computer geek the format I use when naming files is always YYMMDD (.i.e 161127) so that listings will sort neatly. I rarely use the US format, it never made much sense to me even before the military or the world travel that service afforded me.

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    While not surprised, I’m still disappointed that we as a country refused to make the change to metric.

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    Eugeno  almost 8 years ago

    I learned about the military way of writing the date in high school, reading about some of the dispatches that were sent during WWII. I used it on a paper for English class, and was mocked by the instructor for doing so. I persisted in using it anyway, stubborn nut that I was/am.

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