Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 22, 2014
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You sure is purdy!! In the 1880s, margarine sold in Vermont, South Dakota and New Hampshire was dyed pink by law- so it wasn't confused with butter. The coccyx bone was named after the Greek word for cuckoo, because it looks like a bird's bill. British engine stoker John Priest survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, her sister ship Britanic in 1916, and two other ships during World War I- the Alcantara and the Donegal.
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What a lucky sailing son of a gun Priest was. As for 19th-century pink margarine, no way you’d think of it to be kamaboko (which is something like Japanese fish cake).