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1. almost 8 years ago on Arlo and Janis

   Some people will eat pretty much anything if you give it a fancy French name.

2. about 8 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   That can’t be as rare as the pasta I make. Only one person makes it, and I do it only every five years or so.

3. about 8 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   The known universe? Since the only place we can see storms is in our solar system, that is a pretty grandiose claim. Scientists have discovered Jupiter-like planets that are much closer to their suns than Jupiter is. They likely have storms that put Jupiter’s to shame.

4. about 8 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   Walking across the Niagara Gorge on a tightrope was a thing for awhile back in the 1850s. Check out Charles Blondin of France, the most famous. Among other stunts, he offered to carry a volunteer across on his back! Naturally, he got no takers, so he drafted his manager. Halfway across, he needed to rest, so he had his manager get down, stand on the rope until M. Blondin felt ready to continue, then had him climb back on his back and completed the trip.

5. about 8 years ago on Last Kiss

   I am disappointed that the original did not actually have Santa in it.

6. over 8 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   I am guessing that one or both moved in the interim?

7. over 8 years ago on Scary Gary

   How exactly does healing occur with vampires? I don’t remember anything from the lore other than anything other than a stake to heart (or in more modern lore, decapitation) doesn’t hurt them.

8. over 8 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   Well, she was actually cheating. Like the Twilight Zone episode where a man made a wager that he would not speak for a year and had his tongue removed so that he couldn’t speak?

9. over 8 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   Aren’t a lot of inventions combining available components in new ways? The flashlight in question was probably obvious, but so was the light bulb. The trick with the light bulb was getting a filament that would last a reasonable length of time.

10. over 8 years ago on Nancy

    Only on one side though.