Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 06, 2016
August 05, 2016
August 07, 2016
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If you yelled for eight years, seven months and six days, you would produce enough sound energy to heat an 8 ounce cup of coffee. Excavated ancient mummies were so common in late 19th-century Egypt that they were used as fuel for locomotives! Mosquitoes prefer blonds.
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Per Marquette Education magazine http://www.marquette.edu/magazine/recent.php?subaction=showfull&id=1277906400 Mosquitoes really do prefer some people over others, but nobody knows why. However blondes are not the preferred group. They list people wearing dark clothes and those who drink beer as preferred.