Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 08, 2009
April 07, 2009
April 09, 2009
Transcript:
Robert Ripley formed a charity baseball team in 1939 called the Believe It or Nots!. Babe Ruth and WC Fields were among its celebrity members! A fully grown jellyfish like creature, Turritopsis Nutricula can transform itself back into a juvenile and if a number of times, keeping it from ever dying of old age! Sleeping Beauty Alfredo Salafia, a Sicilian embalmer, preserve the body of 2 -year-old Rosalia Lombardo so well in 1920, that today she is often mistaken for a doll and looks virtually unchanged since her death!
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I never understood the obsession with preserving dead bodies. They’re dead and need disposing of, preferable by cremation. Open casket funerals are creepy, especially when you smell the embalming fluid. It’s a morbid ritual. Memorials are fine, just get rid of the bodies!