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February 16, 2017
February 15, 2017
Celebrating Singles Awareness Day, Dollar Bill Style
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Singles Awareness DaySingles Awareness Day is celebrated on the day after Valentine’s Day on February 15th to commemorate all the single people in the world! However, we got a bit mixed up and thought it was about celebrating what really matters: money.
Here’s to you, single dollar bill!
Watch the video for Ripley’s ode to singles.
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February 14, 2017
Name a Roach in Honor of Your Valentine (Or Your Ex)
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The Bronx Zoo is selling the naming rights to their Madagascar hissing cockroaches for just $10.
That’s right, for the low, low price of $10, you can name a roach after your favorite (or not so favorite) person.
For $10, we’ll send a digital certificate with the roach’s name for your loved one to cherish for years to come.
This year they increased their offerings by adding chocolates and a plush roach. Alas, these upgrades are already sold out, but there is always next year!
In the meantime, there is still a Madagascar hissing cockroach just waiting for you to designate with the moniker of your choice.
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February 9, 2017
Your Guide to Chemical Weapons in the Ocean
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The deadly poisonous gas of war, mustard gas, was first used by German troops in 1917. Even though it was quickly banned by the Geneva Convention in 1925, nations all over the world produced massive quantities of the deadly gas throughout World War II.
Mustard gas soaks through clothes and burns the skin, causing massive blisters to form under the armpits and groin.
As tensions cooled in the 1950s, countries had no idea how to dispose of their massive stores of chemical weapons, so they dumped them in the ocean.
This map shows where chemical weapons have been dumped into the ocean around the world.
You can even get more detailed information about the site by clicking on the icon.
Why the Ocean?
Scientists couldn’t find effective or inexpensive ways to disarm the gas. The ocean was a free place for the first world to dump its problems.
Experts estimate that a million tons of chemical weapons sits at the bottom of the ocean, and is still highly dangerous. As shells and barrels rust away, the deadly payloads leak out and have the possibility of causing massive environmental damage.
Militaries have made the task of cleanup even more difficult by classifying dumping sites or erasing evidence of where or what was dumped at all.
MINI BION
“BIONs” – short for Believe It or Not – is the word we use at Ripley’s to refer to anything that is unbelievable and worthy to become part of Ripley’s lore and collection.
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