Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 07, 2019

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    x_Tech  almost 6 years ago

    But do they have an estimate of how many shipwrecks are on land?

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    Leroy  almost 6 years ago

    Translation of sign:

    Un-Pharaoh

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 6 years ago

    Well, I’m blue-eyed and I believe my common ancestor is Adam. If you want to go non-biblical, then I wouldn’t know of anyone.

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    Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr   almost 6 years ago

    I believe the strike was over the allotment of beer to pyramid workers.

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    The Pro from Dover  almost 6 years ago
    Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue?
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    therese_callahan2002  almost 6 years ago

    “Blue eyes. Baby’s got blue eyes.”

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    Breadboard  almost 6 years ago

    Blue eyes and blonde hair ?

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  almost 6 years ago

    And they haven’t even checked the ocean ceiling yet. badda-BING badda-BOOM

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    Nathan Daniels  almost 6 years ago

    Research suggests a lot of things. Whether they’re true or not is another thing entirely.

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    aimlesscruzr  almost 6 years ago

    The Egyptian worker strike happened when Ramsses III was a month late (a few times) paying his workers due to lack of resources from some military campaigns…

    https://www.ancient.eu/article/1089/the-first-labor-strike-in-history/

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    dv1093  almost 6 years ago

    As per the title: I can’t grasp 3 million shipwrecks. That # seems awfully high. I’d like to see their data.

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    russef  almost 6 years ago

    Three Million Shipwrecks: Habitat for Fishanity.

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    WCraft Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    They know about the workers strike because they found them all in the lower room of a pyramid…

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    Fan o’ Lio.  almost 6 years ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0aT0GXW8jw

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    Robin Kent  almost 6 years ago

    I’m wondering how many containers have fallen off of ships and are just floating on the oceans.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  almost 6 years ago

    “Yeah? Well…. Maybe the “common ancestor is Jayzus.” ~ Billy Graham, dead but still kickin’

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    Jogger2  almost 6 years ago

    We all come from a common ancestor. The question is, how recent was the blue eyed ancestor?

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    tuslog1964  almost 6 years ago

    In 1966, I took the “round South America” Tour (Apx $600 then) As our group was wandering around Cuzco, I asked the guide what the school-girls we passed were giggling about. He responded “Probably your blue eyes!”

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    scpandich  almost 6 years ago

    I have to compliment the cartoonist for taking the trouble to look up the hieroglyphs so they could write S-T-R-I-K, but I’m wondering why they chose another I on the end.

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    Scott S  almost 6 years ago

    I had blue eyes when I was little. They started turning green when I was about 11.

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    yangeldf  almost 6 years ago

    wow, I didn’t even know there were 3 million ships…

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    JanBic Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    Blue eyes are actually no color. They actually have no brown pigment in the lens as brown eyed people do. They appear blue by bending light through the clear lens the same way the sky appears blue by bending light through the atmosphere.

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    sousamannd  almost 6 years ago

    Key words from the educated… ‘suggests’ and ‘estimates’ – in other words, they really don’t know!

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    FreyatheWanderer  almost 6 years ago

    I wonder if that ancient Egyptian’s sign says “Unfair.” ;)

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    Spock  almost 6 years ago

    Ripley’s statement about the blue eyes is insufficient and therefore doesn’t make sense. Science says that we all have a common ancestor, independent of the color of our eyes. The cited research result is only some news if reformulated to sth else. In fact it is necessary to say, that these researchers found, that there is a gene related to the blue of the eyes which stems form one single person. This is a different message and would be a really new information. And it was not self-evident as blue-eyedness is an adaption to a different environment and a degeneration of the brown-eyedness which existed earlier, and this degeneration could have happened several times and independently. Additionally, DaveQuinn is right in saying that more than one gene determines eye color. But according to this research, one of them might be common to all blue-eyed people, whereas the other ones are not shared by all.

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    Spock  almost 6 years ago

    Note, that the text on the sign does not say “strike” in Old Egyptian.

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    ekke  almost 6 years ago

    And how many shipwrecks does the United Nations estimate are on the ocean surface?

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    Caeruleancentaur  almost 6 years ago

    I wonder what it says on that placard the Egyptian is holding. What’s he protesting?

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    Ray Helvy Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    Can those of us with green eyes get in on the action?

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