Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 07, 2016
January 06, 2016
January 08, 2016
Transcript:
Hexadactylism, having six fingers or toes, affects about 5 in every 10,000 people and is often hereditary. Former Serbian flight attendant Vesna Vulovic survived a 33,333 FT fall out of an airplane in 1972! Desperate times! During the Great Depression, Texans ate armadillo, calling it poor man's pork and the Hoover Hog in homage to then President Herbert Hoover.
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Templo S.U.D. almost 9 years ago
I’ve heard about eating armadillo on a “Bizarre foods with Andrew Zimmern” episode on the Travel Channel, but I think it was in Oaxaca.
shibler2 almost 9 years ago
They make chili out of Armadillo all the time.
aimlesscruzr almost 9 years ago
Just cook your armadillo well done, they’re carriers of leprosy…
Carl Rennhack Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Calling an armadillo a “Hoover Hog” is very demeaning and unfair…to the ARMADILLO!!
therese_callahan2002 almost 9 years ago
Hence, the armadillo-shaped cake from “Steel Magnolias.”
e.groves almost 9 years ago
I’ve read accounts of settlers and pioneers eating skunk.
comixbomix almost 9 years ago
…why wouldn’t you just say, “1 in every 2,000”?
corpcasselbury almost 9 years ago
Vesna Vulovic was actually not supposed to be on that flight; she had been mistaken for another flight attendant with the same first name. The man who found her had been in the German Army as a medic during World War 2, so he was able to treat her properly until more help arrived.
zeimetr almost 9 years ago
Where did she land?
tuslog64 almost 9 years ago
How did they measure that 33,333 feet?(Maybe it was only 33,332?)
ibjuliebk almost 9 years ago
My ex’s dad’s family would, during the Depression, find dead cows with holes in their sides. They would then hit it with a stick and catch the possums that ran out to eat for dinner. You do what you have to do…..
themom51 almost 9 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87
SharkNose almost 9 years ago
Wednesday Addams has 6 toes…
english.ann almost 9 years ago
2 Samuel 21:20 and 1 Chronicles 20:6 describe the same Philistinian man having six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot.
Tarredandfeathered almost 9 years ago
Six fingers. How would that change our society?.Well, we’d probably Count by 12s instead of 10s.Which, some mathematicians say would actually make elementary Math a little bit Easier for most people..Because 10 only divides evenly by 1, 2 & 5 while 12 divides evenly by 1, 2, 3, 4, & 6.