Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 23, 2024

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    Leroy  about 1 month ago

    If you think polar bears are dangerous, you should see bipolaar bears!!

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    Pickled Pete  about 1 month ago
    I can’t imagine what the people of the titanic were thinking when they struck an iceberg

    But if I had to guess, I’d say they probably had a sinking feeling.

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    sergioandrade Premium Member about 1 month ago

    If you’ve the movie, Frozen, it starts with a group of men harvesting ice for export.

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    Foob  about 1 month ago

    One time I was harvested and exported in the 1801s.

    May the Lord be with you as he is with me.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  about 1 month ago

    And bi-polar bears can swim nonstop for as long as you don’t know about them.

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    h.v.greenman  about 1 month ago

    I thought that these days they would just blast an iceberg into crushed ice

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    Totalloser Premium Member about 1 month ago

    they should be towing icebergs to draught areas for the fresh water, it would also slow ocean rise.I think Richard Pryor invested in a company to do that in Brewster’s Millions

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    mindjob  about 1 month ago

    Pretty soon they won’t have to worry about icebergs blocking anything, har har

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    Angry Indeed Premium Member about 1 month ago

    Why don’t they tow that berg to Martha Stewart’s digs. I hear that she insists on glacial ice, only.

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    Angry Indeed Premium Member about 1 month ago

    They once found a young reindeer, a prospector and an elf living on one floating iceberg, BION.

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    Snuffles [Previously Helikitty]   about 1 month ago

    Ice was considered a cash crop in the U.S. back then and there was even an entire industry around it.

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    LAFITZGERALD  about 1 month ago

    Yes, I remember the pictorial history books about Rockport and Gloucester, even Boston from the public libraries (and the local newspapers)

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  about 1 month ago

    Shackleton screwed up.C’mon,admit it at last….

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    oish  about 1 month ago

    All along the canals back then people would harvest Ice blocks from the canal and store them in Ice Houses (or just caves dug into the side of a hill and covered with sawdust) to sell to boatmen for refrigeration or to people in town.

    My home town still has an Ice manufacturer and distributor (though it no longer uses canal water)

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    Jayalexander  about 1 month ago

    I remember in the early 50’s Ice used to be harvested on the St. clair River near Algonac. The Ice blocks were stored in a large barn. saw dust separated the large blocks of ice and it kept frozen through most of the spring and summer. That ice was cut from the frozen river.

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    Petemejia77  about 1 month ago

    Tugboats tugging! BELIEVE IT OR NOT!!!

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