Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 14, 2014

So… uh… how do Chinese keep track of the time? Use their mobile phones? But of course before those came around, did they rely on wall clocks?

The Chinese are right. Everybody that owns a watch, dies.

teddy was a die hard progressive…I guess he wanted to control football too.

Instead of watches, the Chinese prefer ivory…

Back when, and then, football was more violent and injured players went right back in, some with splints and arm slings.

Teddy was an avid sport hunter of big and small game, and he was worried about violence in football? What a hypocrite.

On November 14, 1889: Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) set out on a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly

They invented the water clock, true. But by the time Europeans contacted them with any regularity, the Chinese had long stopped using any clocks. New clocks from Europe took a while to catch on — and first served them as pillows, because they liked hard pillows. (So said my professor in a modern Chinese history course.)

Does this mean that the Chinese don’t have time for us?

uh oh, times up.

The :“flying wedge” was popular in football then, and there were a lot of injuries, including broken bones. As a result of Roosevelt’s threat, rules were changed to make football safer. One rule required teams to have players near the scrimmage line at the start of a play. This was to prevent formation of the flying wedge.

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