Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 03, 2019

Do the people on that Island go on the internet so they can read Ripley’s Believe it or Not?

Take care and may God bless.

So the Tristan da Cunha islanders only pay their monthly bills once a year along with junk mail in the mix?

Tristan may be further away from any type of land; but if you don’t include other islands, Hawaii is much further.

So, Peter the great was a great torturer, eh..

What, they don’t have internet yet?

I thought piloerection meant… um.. er.. I’ll just shut up now.

That’s because all the other ships are female ;-)

Man, getting a whole year of bills at once must really be a bummer!

I’ll bet Peter didn’t worry about malpractice insurance.

Horrid inbreeding.

Did Pete’s subjects want their teeth worked on or was he just another royal weirdo?

“Is it safe?”

As I understand, Peter the Great’s practice of dentistry wasn’t always voluntary. That is, for his subjects.

I read a fascinating story (on-line for free) about a Missionary couple that lived there about a hundred years ago. A tough life on that island then to be sure!

And he kept right on practicing until one confessed where they hid his candy…

Tristan da Cunha may not have received a postal code until 2005, but according to this site they already had a post office. They started issuing stamps in 1952.

https://www.tristandc.com/postoffice.php

I thought it was Gilligan’s Island. Now we know how they got off that one time a year.

I’ll bet the telemarketers still bother them.

But does Amazon Prime deliver?

I had to take Viagra to get a piloerection