Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 13, 2023

I’m not buying the pushup thing. That’s approximately 32 pushups per minute for 24 hours straight. No food, no potty breaks , no way.

Let me guess, the Belizan ambassador Kwichelle Man was a six-time figure skating champion.

What was even Sarles Chervizio’s secret to do that many push-ups — forty-six thousand and two — in one day?

I was disappointed that the very graceful Michelle Kwan never won an Olympic gold medal. She did win about 9 or 10 US figure skating championships in her heyday of 20 to 25 years ago.

The RBION account of Garfield’s death is somewhat misleading. The doctors were unable to locate the bullet within his body. Naturally there was going to be an infection caused by the bullet itself and by any dirty clothing matter it pushed deep into the body.

I was in Belize (mainland)….I loved their beer. that’s all. The beer company motto, Belikin beer, for Belizians only.

Here is an interesting coincidence. I will be age 71 this summer. If I had been born EXACTLY 71 years before my actual birthdate, I would have been born on the very day that President Garfield was shot—-July 2, 1881!

Unfortunately for President Garfield, medical scientists, like Pasteur, were just beginning to develop an understanding of modern germ theory in the 1880’s.

Ambassador Kwan’s first order of business with Belize was to get the citizens there to stop holding one leg in the air and looking around waiting for applause.

Take care, may Australian physicist and pushup enthusiast Professor Angus “I’m Pushing On The Planet And It’s Moving Just A Little Bit As Measured By Instruments In A Galaxy Far Away” O’Tooheysord be with you, and gesundheit.

I did not know that about Michelle Kwan. Congratulations to her.

20years later,William MCKinley’s doctors didn’t do any betetr with him;failing to detect internal bleeding.

Get this over with… 1781Today in historyThe seventh planet of the solar system, Uranus, was discovered by Sir William Herschel.

i haven’t done that many pushups in my life!

Come on, Johnny Cash told us who shot Mr. Garfield way back in 1965 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNAfPvzTBmQ

Spoiler alert: It was Charles (“Charlie”) Guiteau.

There were claims physicians hastened the death of President Lincoln by causing more damage when they examined the wound and tried to find the bullet. AFAIK, those claims have been discredited.

For a minute there I was worried that they were talking about Garfield the cat and Odie has finally snapped.

46k pushups? That is nothing! I did that many fork, spoon and knife lifts in one day!

Bring Back Dilbert

im not buy the pushup thing either….they must have been micro pushup if anything…

On another matter, what the heck is going on with Dilbert? I was reading Classic Dilbert until a week ago when it disappeared. Today’s Dilbert is now gone. Anyone know anything about what is happening?

“The doctors killed Garfield, I just shot him.” – Charles Guiteau

It’s possible better doctors could have saved him. They were pretty awful in those days.

There is an alternate theory that the bullet gong into Garfield did a lot of damage to organs like the gallbladder, creating secondary infections that eventually killed him. Winding up in the abdomen was a dangerous place anyway

Other bad things that happened on July 2, the day Garfield was shot: Amelia Earhart disappeared in 1937, Earnest Hemingway shot himself in 1961, Trump said something nasty. Hey, I’m guessing on that last one, but still a pretty good guess!

Thanks for clearing that up.