For nearly a century Ripley’s has been getting the world’s strangest mail, but from June 13 – September 5, 2014 we will reward our fans simply for sending us something strange through the United States Postal Service. The odder, the funnier, the more bizarre, the better!
There is one catch…
All items to be eligible to win must be sent with absolutely no packaging, boxing, or envelopes.
Whatever the item is, and it can be anything, must be sent and received with the stamps applied directly on the object!
1672 - French army under Gen Turenne crosses Rhine at Lobith
1819 - Dutch colonial troops driven out of Palembang Sumatra
1861 - Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson calls for 50,000 volunteers to stop Federates from taking over his state
1920 - 52nd Belmont: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 2:14.2
1925 - William DeHart Hubbard of US, sets long jump record at 25' 10 3/4"
1933 - Financial and Economy World conference opens (66 countries)
1519 - Cosimo I de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and art patron of Florence (d. 1574)
1928 - Vic Damone, [Vito Farinola], Bkln, singer (Street Where You Live)
1930 - Barbara Harris, 1st US Episcopal female bishop
1946 - Harry Glasper, English writer
1976 - Thomas Sørensen, Danish footballer
1979 - Dallas Clark, American football player
1567 - Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1490)
1858 - William Horsley, composer, dies at 83
1937 - Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1893)
1966 - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor/music publisher, dies at 74
1983 - Norma Shearer, actress (Escape, Romeo and Juliet), dies at 82
1992 - Gerda Nicolson, actress (Next of Kin, Clinic), dies
Bank of America wrongfully foreclosed a couple, who sued and won a judgement for $2500 in Legal fees. When Bank of America didn’t pay, the couple showed up at the bank with a moving company, a deputy, and a writ allowing them to start seizing furniture and/or cash.
Actor Paul Marcarelli – the Verizon Wireless “Can you hear me now?” guy – told “The Atlantic” magazine that the catchphrase plagues him so much that someone even said it to him at his grandmother’s funeral as her casket was being lowered into the cemetery plot.
Google prefers dogs to cats. Their code of conduct specifically states that they are a dog company.
It is illegal in Switzerland to own only one guinea pig because they are prone to loneliness.
In 2008 a beach was stolen in Jamaica. The 500 truckloads of sand remain missing to this very day.
There exists a large online community of ‘scambaiters’: individuals who are devoted to tricking Nigerian 419 scammers into performing hilarious and often humiliating challenges.
