Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 31, 2014
May 30, 2014
June 01, 2014
Transcript:
Mighty mite! The tiny moss mite Archegozetes Longisetosus can resist 1180 times its own weight. That's like a human holding an airliner! Plovers pretend to set on nests that don't exist in order to distract predators from their real nest. In 1863, during the US Civil War, 10,000 soldiers from the Confederate Army had a giant snowball fight on the frozen Rappahannock River in Virginia.
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Templo S.U.D. over 10 years ago
I bet it’s going to be really hard without insecticides to kill a mass of moss mites.
boldyuma over 10 years ago
There is film footage of GI’s having a snowball fight during the Battle Of The Bulge WWII..I can’t even imagine..considering how my dad who was there..and reading his letters.. telling us all he wished for Christmas was a dry pair of socks..
Jogger2 over 10 years ago
Someone said as creatures get larger, the strength of muscle increases in proportion to their cross sectional area, but the mass of muscle increase in proportion to the cube of the length of the creature. So, larger creatures can “lift” heavier objects, but the ratio of the maximum they can lift to their body mass is less.
Lamberger over 10 years ago
Part of it is the impulse [time] width of the impact. Just because you can push a car doesn’t mean that you should stand in front of it when it’s moving.
SarahDaDragonSlayer over 10 years ago
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