Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 25, 2019

roughly at the three-minute mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BynUZOJc8QI

Sense the US is no longer on any standard printing money creates a false standard.

Wikipedia says it’s 340

That Purple Heart one suggests that they had such a stockpile for the anticipated invasion of Japan that they were able to give them out for every military conflict since WWII up through the present (unless the government, for some reason, made up new medals for Korea, Vietnam, etc., and only recently decided to raid the old stores).

For those who ask “why did they drop the bomb”, that little Purple Heart factoid answers perfectly. So glad my Dad came home and didn’t have to invade.

Note the artist did not reproduce the ribbon for the purple heart correctly…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Heart

Yes, meth has its advantages.

I can play it at 380bpm; but it sounds really crappy. (Considering I don’t play guitar.)

So the reason Bush invaded Iraq was to reduce the backlog of Purple Heart medals.

That’s nothing, Mr. Vega. I can clear out a Guitar Center in less than 5 seconds with my rendition of “Stairway To Heaven”.

It’s a damm shame we should even have a need to ever hand them out in the first place!

It occurred in a jam session when he sat down on a bee…

That means that all of the Purple Hearst awarded in Korea, Vietnam and other conflicts since 1945 are form the same stock.