Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 19, 2015
Transcript:
Doh! Since 1990, Travis McNall of Wolocottville, Indiana, or Bart to his friends- has collected 3444 pieces of memorabilia from the TV show The Simpsons! There is more gold in a ton of mobile phones than in a ton of gold ore. Gene Simmons is jealous! Adrianne Lewis of Muskegon, Michigan, has a record-breaking tongue, measuring 4 inches long!
A ton of gold ore would yield about 1-2 grams of gold. It would take approximately 41 mobil phones to yield 1 gram of gold.A ton of phones ( minus battery’s) would yield about 300 grams of gold.