Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 29, 2019

I don’t want to know what happens if the fool can’t catch a chicken.

And Centralia, PA, is still uninhabited because of those fires after the evacuation.

Edison also invented a device to electrocute dogs, cats, and an elephant in his war against George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla.

“Leave me alone, Mr. Pennywise!”

Why doesn’t Centralia harness that geothermal energy and use it to heat the town?

What, was it installed in his hair?

“Costumed fools?” Politicians, right?

the tough part about those electrocution devices for cockroaches is trying to strap those little legs into those little electric chairs

without pulling them off their little squirming bodies.

Tommy should have invented something to trim those out of control eyebrows! ;o]

Edison was trying to talk to the dead. He had two metal plates delicately balanced and when they touched each other they were electrified. He thought the dead might send messages like a telegraph key but when they came back to the shop every morning all they found were dead cockroaches who had stepped on the plates and energized it.

What happened in Centralia once might have happened in Siberia and almost made all live on earth extinct:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/mar/12/burning-coal-may-have-caused-earths-worst-mass-extinction

Capital punishment for insects must have been a big issue in Edison’s day.

There’s a coal fire in India that’s been burning over 100 years.