Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 20, 2018

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    Leroy  over 6 years ago

    I still prefer the money to the mouse “tips.”

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 6 years ago

    2,500,000 multiplied by 24 would be what in order to know how many bottles a day that’d be? Then multiply that by how much to know how many bottles a month? Lastly, what would that be yearly?

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    Bilan  over 6 years ago

    Let me guess, the mouse says “Say cheese!”, and then grabs the loose tooth before it even comes out.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  over 6 years ago

    Plastic bottles are not the only things making our landfills into mountains.

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    aimlesscruzr  over 6 years ago

    And I’m not one of the Americans that add to that plastic bottle total. If I could, I would even buy my milk in glass and return that. But I can’t so I get it in the paper carton. I hate that we have become a disposable society. My current top of the list hate are those little coffee pods…

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    aimlesscruzr  over 6 years ago

    Oh, and thank you Jimmy Carter. You were the one that legalized home brewing!

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    J Short  over 6 years ago

    I liked the money, but I didn’t want to meet any fairy that collected teeth; pretty creepy.

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    Max Starman Jones  over 6 years ago

    We had this bottle thing fixed: we had glass soft drink bottles, water bottles — even five gallon ones. All glass, all returnable. But that was back in the less-environmentally-conscious days, before the sophisticated people of today were in charge.

    Of course, we often drank water from a garden hose, then, too, instead of a two dollar plastic bottle.

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    tuslog1964  over 6 years ago

    Soda used to be sold in glass bottles that would be returned, washed and reused. And you could even mix the flavors you put in a carton. But, empty bottles attracted vermin and all it took was one in hundreds of millions of bottles not getting completely cleaned, ie a mouse not being washed out – for disastrous lawsuits.

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    coffeeturtle  over 6 years ago

    I’ve been following this coverage for the last few months:

    https://news.sky.com/story/head-of-sky-news-john-ryley-why-were-launching-sky-ocean-rescue-and-getting-rid-of-disposable-plastic-in-our-canteens-10739990

    This was an interesting part of it:

    https://news.sky.com/story/scientists-accidentally-engineer-plastic-eating-enzyme-11334544

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    billsarar  over 6 years ago

    Plastic binds carbon into a non-gaseous form. It’s like returning coal to the ground.

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    Stephen Gilberg  over 6 years ago

    Hard to believe about Carter. Guess hospital births weren’t taken for granted before the ’20s.

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    gopher gofer  over 6 years ago

    ⇧ the stork brought all the previous presidents…

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    Neerovra Premium Member over 6 years ago

    Ratoncito Pérez is the tooth rat. Al Madrigal mentions him in his comedy special “Shrimpin’ Ain’t Easy”.

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