Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 28, 2019

As much as I’m ancestrally part Danish, why DO the Dane’s celebrate the United States’ Independence Day? They didn’t fight in the Revolutionary War; that was the French.

When I was a kid, they told us that road would be 6 lanes wide. I wonder if that is still true. Because of the heavy truck traffic the concrete for the interstates is about three feet thick.

But why does Denmark do that? It doesn’t have an Independence Day of its own?

I wonder what they call a shark in the Brazilian Tupi language.

I’ll be sure to buy a Danish pastry next July 4.

I remember reading that the deepest concrete in the dam won’t be completely cured for another 500 years

We toured the dam back in 1984, and I remember seeing weeping water down in the depths of the dam… our guide assured us that was NOT water leaking through, but ground water… and I, too, heard about the concrete still curing all these years later, on a TV show (likely on DiscoveryTV) that talked about the dam’s construction…

Well that explains all the potholes in ol’ Route 66. They took all of the pavement to build Hoover Dam. (attempting to be humorous)

Well, it means ex-wife in English.

Shows how thin the roads are made in the USA.

Wow on the concrete one. But, they didn’t specify how wide, thick etc.. that does make a difference.

I saw on one of those nature documentories that some of the tribes in the Amazon use piranha jaws to cut hair.

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Well that’s very nice that Denmark celebrates our independence day. It is too bad that we have so so many people in this country who seem to hate this country and everything it stands for. It is unprecedented in our history.

One or two lanes?

Piranha translates to “OMG Help Me!” in all the other languages…

three cheers for Denmark!!! and thank you

Actually, Denmark does NOT celebrate American Independence, at least not as a national holiday.

What happens is that there is one large festival, Rebild Festival, held in the national park of the same name. It does celebrate the independence of the USA, and it’s quite large, the largest one outside the US. In fact, it starts on July 2nd. It has been celebrated since 1912.

But it’s just a festival held by a non-profit organization, the Danish-American Rebild Society. It’s not an event organized by the Danish government. If I understand correctly, the rest of the country doesn’t really care, and it’s certainly not a national holiday.

Piranha actually means “devil fish”.