Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 08, 2022

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    jasonsnakelover  4 months ago

    Too bad chocolate can’t be used to help diabetes.

    So fishermen can see through that fish.

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

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    monkeysky  4 months ago

    Woah, didn’t know that fact about chocolate. Apparently there’s an antiviral compound in it (and red wine) called resveratrol, but you need a whole lot of it to help. I kinda wish Castano drew a cartoon chocolate bar instead, but no one ever said that smallpox was nice to look at.

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    jmolay161  4 months ago

    Reading RBION today, I am reminded of Silver’s recent comment wondering if there were lice that peed out of both ends. A change today from the usual RBION gaseous factoids.

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    pearlsbs  4 months ago

    Apparently chocolate was also once used to treat cholera, tuberculosis, asthma and yellow fever.

    Here is a link if anyone cares to look at it:

    https://www.worldcocoafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/files_mf/pucciarelli2008.pdf

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    I'm here for the cookies Premium Member 4 months ago

    I now know why I never got Smallpox. My addiction to chocolate

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    Bilan  4 months ago

    So chocolate is good for both smallpox and attacks from Dementors. Nice.

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    cripplious  4 months ago

    As a diabetic, Ill warn you not to eat a lot of sugar free candies. IT can play heck with the digestive system.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  4 months ago

    Oui oui, we must have your wee wee. ~ Doctor Pierre LePeese

    Take care, may unseen corpuscle detective Rouge “Mon Sang, Ma Peau, Mes Os, Pas Pour Tes Yeux” be with you, and gesundheit.

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    Gameguy49 Premium Member 4 months ago

    I guess the chocolate allowed the patient to die a little happier. Chocolate is my best treat.

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    WCraft Premium Member 4 months ago

    Blood, penicillin, small pox – someone is on a medical kick today.

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    198.23.5.11  4 months ago

    In STEAMBOAT BILL,there’s a famous scene where a wall falls on Buster Keaton but he’s unharmed becausethe only open window in the wall passes over him.

    That was an actual 2-ton wall and Keaton would have been killed if he’d moved a half-inch off his “mark”. Keaton was a “bug” on doing his own stunts—he began as a vaudeville acrobat

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    tremaine53  4 months ago

    Penicillin was rare? What? They’d never seen a rotten orange before?!?

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    Carl Rennhack Premium Member 4 months ago

    Are any of those fish in any of the RBIOB Aquariums?

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    LAFITZGERALD  4 months ago

    That was an incredible fact on chocolate – wow!!

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    Stephen Gilberg  4 months ago

    “I said I needed a blood transplant, not…”

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    Petemejia77  4 months ago

    Not a good r.b.i.o.n to read while eating lunch!

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