Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 14, 2013
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July 15, 2013
Transcript:
More bucks for the bang! In the 2011 assault on Libya, the US and UK fired 161 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a cost of $1.41 million each! The Inuit people are thought to have the strongest jaws on the planet because they have adapted for chewing frozen meat! A new drug developed for stroke victims is made from Draculin, the saliva of vampire bats!
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Masterius about 11 years ago
They should try eating my wife’s cooking.
DoubleM about 11 years ago
I’ve heard about bat saliva being used as medicine before. Supposedly it contains an anticoagulant, which allows the bat to suck enough blood while keeping it from clotting.
green8019 about 11 years ago
Money we will waste……….sigh.
eddodt about 11 years ago
i did not know that the savior recieved congressional approval for military action in libya…who knew.
Kerovan about 11 years ago
It’s actually common n Africa to eat the chicken bones after eating chicken. A friend of mine that went into the peace corp told me about it. Wonder what it does to their jaw muscles?
chromosome Premium Member about 11 years ago
I bet “draculin” will be very expensive (like TPA is, which does a similar thing at $2000 per dose). Maybe it would be cheaper to keep colonies of vampire bats around and let them bite the patient?
alan.gurka about 11 years ago
Those missiles are still a bargain, when compared with the young lives of our military men and women that could have been lost or traumatized with PTSD, amputations, etc., and the life long treatments associated with their injuries.