Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 09, 2014
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June 10, 2014
Transcript:
The human body contains 20 billion miles of DNA strands, enough to stretch to Mars and back 70 times. Vitamin P?! Fermented urine, called lant, was added to beer in the middle ages for extra flavor. In 1895 George Seldon patented the motorcar and was paid royalties for every car made in America until 1912, when Henry Ford successfully sued him.
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Templo S.U.D. over 10 years ago
I’ve one word concerning lant: ewww. As for Selden, poor chap. No comment about DNA.
johnt204 over 10 years ago
And on that 70-ply strand of DNA they could possibly hang an entire amoeba.
spaced man spliff over 10 years ago
Or to put it another way, the DNA strands from 1,000 people could reach from here to the nearest star.
Simon_Jester over 10 years ago
We can only hope some enterprising microbrewery doesn’t decide to bring BACK Lant beer.
koredbr over 10 years ago
You could buy Rocky Mountain Oyster beer in CO last year. It was a limited batch run.
http://www.wynkoop.com/blog/wynkoop-releases-first-cans-of-rocky-mountain-oyster-stout/
tlynnch over 10 years ago
So Selden was the first patent troll?
Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 10 years ago
The big North American breweries don’t use human urine, they use horse…