Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 01, 2012
Transcript:
Hey... Get a room! When anacondas come together to breed, as many as a dozen males will wrap around a single female, often remaining coiled together for as long as a month! A pituitary tumor in the brain of 29-year-old Sultan Kosen of Turkey caused him to grow continuously until he was 8 feet, 3 inches tall. Polonium-210, a radioactive metal- can end up in cigarettes if it is present in the soil and fertilizer in which the tobacco plants were grown!
Kali39 over 12 years ago
Death sticks should be banned. Perhaps now we can bring the Atomic Energy Commission on this matter.
ghretighoti over 12 years ago
Polonium and nicotine: doubly carcinogenic. Kids everywhere from age nine or ten should be taught what a particularly nasty death you can suffer when you get hooked on cigarettes. And if you get hooked before age 15 it is almost certain you will be hooked until they kill you.
jedirevan89 over 12 years ago
“WOW” and here I thought they weren’t dangerous……..
Aussie Down Under over 12 years ago
Those anacondas represent a nest of vipers?
tadchem over 12 years ago
Carbon-14, a radioactive non-metal, can end up in cigarettes and food if it is present in the air in which the plants are grown.
Puddleglum2 over 12 years ago
They coil around the ‘goil’, and roll in the soil!
Puddleglum2 over 12 years ago
“Cheaper by the dozen”
chicken 33 over 12 years ago
Everybody got nailed and it wasn’t just the female.
alan.gurka over 12 years ago
And after a month of cuddling, I’m sure she won’t be asking for any more for a long time.
zipperg over 12 years ago
Cyanide can end up in your breakfast if you sprinkle it on your eggs while you’re scrambling them.
da11a5 over 12 years ago
….sounds like Snake-Rape
tbritt99 over 12 years ago
And yet they keep banning cannabis.
tuslog64 over 12 years ago
And that’s why there is arsenic in food and water. Years ago, arsenate of lead was used as a bug killer. Excess went into soil.
tuslog64 over 12 years ago
At least that’s a month that 13 snakes are not bothering us.
tuslog64 over 12 years ago
What a machette target!
comicnut4636 over 12 years ago
I grew continuously too until I got to 5’-9". What’s the big deal? We all grow continuously until we stop growing…or die.
rclake1963 over 12 years ago
Tobacco should be illegal. Marijuana should be LEGAL!
BlackHawkDon over 12 years ago
Don’t forget the fertilizers that get into your foods. All of them!
xall2h1 over 12 years ago
That adds a billionth reason why not to smoke. If you smoke, why not just lick the tar from the street. its the same thing