Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 19, 2014
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Transcript:
Turkmenistan gave its citizens 32 gallons of free gas per month until April 2014, when the program was stopped. In Bali, babies are forbidden to touch the ground for their first 3 months. Look out!! Plants can talk to each other- they release chemicals when under attack from insects that worn plants hereby to produce their own anti-insect chemicals.
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Templo S.U.D. about 10 years ago
So Bali babies stay in cribs, high chairs, bathtubs, strollers and anything kind of elevated until they’re three months of age? Awkward custom.
joe piglet Premium Member about 10 years ago
Have you seen the Bali rats! Babies have a fighting chance.
juicebruce about 10 years ago
Are there deadly snakes in Bali? could be reason for not being on the ground.
cripplious about 10 years ago
Its just a cultural idiom. http://www.baliadvertiser.biz/articles/feature/2013/balinese_babies.html
sdjamieson Premium Member about 10 years ago
Forbidden? So if they touch the ground, do they have to go to baby jail?
LV1951 about 10 years ago
I don’t have kids, but I can’t imagine putting a newborn-3 month old on the floor anyway!
corpcasselbury about 10 years ago
Be nice if the U.S. government would give its citizens 32 gallons of free gas per month; my wife and I would save quite a bit of money that way.
corpcasselbury about 10 years ago
Be nice if the U.S. government would give its citizens 32 gallons of free gas per month; my wife and I would save quite a bit of money that way.
Dkram about 10 years ago
It’s the smell of new mown grass..Isn’t it amazing how alive the plants we eat are..\\//_
Stephen Gilberg about 10 years ago
Does Bali have a five-second rule?
MetalOverCountry almost 10 years ago
Weird custom in Bali, demons in floors? And if they keep the babies in cribs, watch out for bedbugs.