Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 05, 2021

Ah, Venice. —Henry Jones, Jr. in The Last Crusade

The Roman-era key is given to the prisoner in front of three doors. He has to unlock the right door and get out before the lion eats him.

On the seafloor of Venice Lagoon, some really dorky rollerblading guy was discovered. Marine biologists are studying him in hopes of winning the Nobel Prize.

Western barroom brawls don’t need opulent sets.

As late as 1909 Buffalo Bill Cody staged his Wild West Show at the Tabor in Leadville.

I guess that bronze key handle went to the men’s bathroom at the local pub. It was both big and heavy, and showed you what would happen if you did not return it to Cornius, the pub tender. Gruel and Mead, coming your way.

Opera in Colorado sounds like military intelligence; an oxymoron.

Take care, may famed cynic Theom “No Way” Brotusord be with you, and gesundheit.

Was that suppose to read "opulent theater seats?

That attic would be a good place to hide a body.

I know I’m stirring up a wasp’s nest, but it does rankle me, to see British towns (Leicester), with the appendage “England”… But never American towns (Colorado), Colorado, America… Especially the American towns named after British towns and counties… are more recent than their predecessors…

In Venice, Italy, we have to keep kids off the canals.

Did they sit differently 140 years ago???

Nah, that’s not a Roman road, that’s the track for the fake EuroDisney submarine!!!

Roman roads… the other lasting contribution of the Romans was concrete.

Just think: The Wild West was still current then.