Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 15, 2017

those hairpins would poke the purse snatchers’ eyes out!

As my great grandmother once told me. “When dating in my day, hatpins kept more than hats in their place.”

“If your bloodvessels were removed from the body and laid out end to end… you’d die.”

Coincidentally, Henry VIII’s funeral was identical to William’s as goes the popping coffin.

And weaponized hairpins have been around since the Sengoku era. (They’re formally known as kanzashi. Female ninja spies, or “kunoichi”, used them as part of their civilian guise.)

The king’s last meal must have been really explosive.

Maybe a lady with a hat pin stabbed William and blew him up.

No one wanted to front the money for a high end coffin.

If you ever meet someone who says they can confirm that claim about the blood vessels, run.

Don’t know about blood vessels, but I heard that if all the people who slept in church were laid end to end, they would sleep better.

That lady doesn’t need a hat pin, with that look no one is going to even get close.

When I read the section on hat pins the first thing I thought of was my mom. Another item she always said made a good weapon was a cast iron frying pan.

If I lived back then and could advise on these things, I’d reduce the time the deceased lay in state. Or invent modern embalming. Whatever.

Ghastly! Simply, ghastly! Where is my snuff box?

laying neurons end to end would be twice as long.

The old biddy’s going to poke William’s eye out!

just couldn’t make a custom coffin – for a conqueror!