Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 18, 2018

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    Leroy  over 6 years ago

    Actually, Buy one / Get one free was a better deal.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 6 years ago

    How is Dr. Hardy’s patient today I wonder?

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    Emptypockets51.  over 6 years ago

    It must be National Mississippi Day.

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    The Pro from Dover  over 6 years ago

    I dated a two faced snake once.

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    Max Starman Jones  over 6 years ago

    Dr. Hardy actually has two distinctions: he also performed the LAST animal-to-human heart transplant.

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    JohnDennis1  over 6 years ago

    From https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3246856/“The first heart transplant in a human ever performed was by Hardy in 1964, using a chimpanzee heart, but the patient died within 2 hours.”

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    comixbomix  over 6 years ago

    Does that mean they have to feed it two-headed rats???

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    J Short  over 6 years ago

    One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi…

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    By-jiminy  over 6 years ago

    Actually it was the first pairs of shoes sold in boxes. I’m pretty sure people always bought shoes in pairs.

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    paranormal  over 6 years ago

    “The first heart transplant in a human ever performed was by Hardy in 1964, using a chimpanzee heart, but the patient died within 2 hours. Starzl carried out the first chimpanzee-to-human liver transplantation in 1966; in 1992, he obtained patient survival for 70 days following a baboon liver transplant. With the advent of genetic engineering and cloning technologies, pigs are currently available with a number of different manipulations that protect their tissues from the human immune response, resulting in increasing pig graft survival in nonhuman primate models. Genetically modified pigs offer hope of a limitless supply of organs and cells for those in need of a transplant.”

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3246856/

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    Sneaker  over 6 years ago

    Years ago there was a Gilberts Shoe Store " in Columbus Ohio. My dad bought me a pair and I wore them when we left the store. It started to sprinkle a little. The shoes got wet and the dye started running off the shoes. .

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    fuzzbucket Premium Member over 6 years ago

    There was another animal to human transplant about 1955, when I was in the 5th grade. I think this one was in Russia, and they used a dog’s heart to keep a body alive while they repaired the human heart.

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