Are you ready for the latest 2011 special edition of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
It is full of the weird, wonderful and crazy stuff that you would expect,plus plenty of new stuff. Here are some interesting things that I discovered.
Russian surgeons thought that Artyom Sidorkin had a tumor in his lung, but instead they discovered a tiny fir tree. They assume that he had inhaled a seed, which germinated inside his lung.
In 1978 a teenager Doug Pritchard went to the doctor with a sore foot. Perhaps he should have gone to the dentist instead. The cause of his pain was a tooth growing in his instep.
The purple dye used for royal robes was made by soaking shellfish in urine until they rotted. Yuk!
And lets not forget ninety-one year old Louise Brown from Scotland who has borrowed more that 25,000 books from her local library, without a single fine for late returns. Mrs Brown has been visiting the library for 60 years and has read almost every book on their shelves.