Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 06, 2014
July 05, 2014
July 07, 2014
Transcript:
Chloephobia is an irrational fear of newspapers! Check me out!! Tarantulas can lose legs when they molt and shed their exoskeleton, but they usually grow back by the time they molt again! The octopus stinkhorn mushroom is so named because it looks like an octopus and stinks of rotten flesh, in order to attract the flies that spread its spores.
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Templo S.U.D. over 10 years ago
So are chloepobics cured or at ease when they read newspapers online?
Aussie Down Under over 10 years ago
Chloepobia will be wiped out eventually.
Kyle Robert over 10 years ago
The only thing about newspapers that other news outlets lack is the comics page. Now, if only there were some other way to read the same comics, we’d have no use for newspapers at all.
Space_cat over 10 years ago
I have a fear of touching newspapers just left lying around.. You don’t know where the last persons hands were before they touched it!Ewww!
potrerokid over 10 years ago
Ya do now!!!! Oh………..watch out for scorpions, while you’re at it!!!!!!!!!
pnorman1 over 10 years ago
I used to have to drive across the West Texas desert to get to the airport in El Paso. Often times I would see these large black things crossing the highway. I’d be driving 80 or 90 mph and see them far off in the distance. As I got closer they’d get bigger and bigger. I always wondered how big the tarantula had to be to be noticed at that speed and as far away as I would see them.