Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 21, 2020

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    Caldonia  almost 4 years ago

    Dentistry was probably smashing someone’s teeth out with a rock back then. I could be wrong, but I don’t care.

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    flashdrive1988  almost 4 years ago

    Define “dentistry” in 7000 BC? I would speculate that ancient dentistry was dedicated to removing teeth by any means necessary. Infected or abscessed teeth would lead to life-threatening sepsis back then, so the best remedy was removal.

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    Dean  almost 4 years ago

    BCE

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    FassEddie  almost 4 years ago

    And you don’t have to climb up a mountainside in the fog to see it!

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    J Short  almost 4 years ago

    Partial jaw pictured, was the first attempt at pulling a wisdom tooth.

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    ncorgbl  almost 4 years ago

    Does knocking out a rival’s teeth count as dentistry?

    Machu Picchu has a better view.

    That sounds like the cell phones in the 1990s.

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    Buckeye67  almost 4 years ago

    These are pretty weak believe it or nots.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  almost 4 years ago

    Interesting.

    Take care, may Addalanta McShord be with you, and gesundheit.

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    Stephen Gilberg  almost 4 years ago

    When I learned of Caulerpa 20+ years ago, I read that they could grow to two feet. Also, they had three organs. I thought organs were made up of cells, not vice versa.

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    6turtle9  almost 4 years ago

    I do not believe the London tower bit. Machu Picchu is much older than that.

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    ScottHolman  almost 4 years ago

    One cell? not possible.

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    flyintheweb  almost 4 years ago

    well, maybe back then Og had such a bad toothache he hit himself in the face with a rock, knocked out the bad one, and considered himself the first dentist! Depends on definition!

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    Craig Westlake  almost 4 years ago

    And it only took until the 1900s for patients to discover that the sign “Painless Dentist” didn’t mean the patients…

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    Craig Westlake  almost 4 years ago

    At over a foot in size it is no longer a cell, it is a building…

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    gozar  almost 4 years ago

    Ancient Dentistry: Believe it.

    Ancient Tower: Believe it.

    Massive Algae: Believe it.

    May the smorgasbord be with you.

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    jonnytest  almost 4 years ago

    Machu Picchu was already old when the Incas found it. The oldest stonework of megaliths, fitted without room for so much as a hair between them, was done with a lost technology that far predates the crude Incan stones. The indigenous people there even say that “the gods” built it. Conservative archaeologists really have their heads up their butts on this one, and should go back to school for a few civil engineering courses.

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