Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 23, 2019

…and that calendar was more accurate than the one we use today.

… but the personal planner was only 5 tons.

It has been six years since Russia classed beer as alcoholic?! What had they been thinking it was all this time?

The calendar didn’t need a chain to keep anyone from absentmindedly walking away with it.

Whoops! I made a mistake! I need another stone!

but the world didn’t end in 2012

Does it matter where vodka replaces tea and coffee as regular beverages? ;o)

Wouldn’t drown

Big countdown about 6 months into that third year.

How did they change the calendar every month?

Bet it was hard to tear off the pages.

Lucky lungfish can miss an entire presidential term.

Rock on! The Ancient Egyptians used a stone casket 481 feet high, weighing in at 7.5 million tons!

During times of drought, the Mauretanian Crocodile can survive in the Sahara desert in self-dug underground tunnels for months.

In Germany, there is an idiom: Beer is no alcohol, but a basic food.

It took the classification committee until 2013 to get sober enough to work…

1. Who watched the African lung fish for the length of time of hibernation. 2. Who classified the beer as a alcoholic drink, probably a nondrinker or just a reason to tax something.

#1. I can’t hang that one on my wall on a nail like my present one so I can’t use it. #2. I don’t think I could get comfortable hurried in mud for 4 years. #3. I’d like to know how they kept that one secret for that long. Especially the way I’ve heard they drink in Russia!

And they really hated it when they had to reschedule an event that they had “chiseled” onto the calendar.