Ripley's Believe It Or Not Minute - Bono The Dwarf

This is Ritzley's. Believe it or not. Bono was a French dwarf. He was only 18 inches tall at the age of 11. However, he ate 40 large cucumbers, 30 figs, and a whole watermelon for dessert each day.

Believe it or not. In a moment, I'll tell you about the guard who was faithful even after death. Stefano's was a guard at the monastery of St. Catherine on Biblical Mount Sinai. On his death bed in the year 580, he pleaded to be permitted to continue his services.

This unusual request was honored, and so after his death, Stefano's was placed outside the house of the dead. There his fully clothed skeleton still guards the entrance today, a macabre reminder of the loyalty of a man many years after his death.

Believe it or not.