Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 03, 2019

Is Mikey’s poem even under a glass display in said chapel?

That’s not a jellyfish. It’s a man-0-war

What were traffic lights used for before cars?

Do the jellyfish also vote Democrat after they’re dead?

Only when they’re merely dead. Not when they’re most sincerely dead.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57328/michaelangelo-to-giovanni-da-pistoia-when-the-author-was-painting-the-vault-of-the-sistine-chapel

Just think, one day rump will be right here in Believe It or Not! For the world’s worst leader! Go figure!

I bet Mike’s poem was pretty good.

A sorry old man lives in Rome,

He got some fresh paint in his home,

It drove me to tears, as the painting took years,

Brunelleschi had it easier with his Dome.

Ceiling painting gave him a bad neck and shoulders.

As for jellyfish and like animals being able to sting after they are dead? Most of them can sting even when they no longer seem to be present.

As a kid I caught a jellyfish in a dip net. After getting a close look at it, I returned it to the water. Hours later, I picked up the net again and it brushed against my leg. Fiery pain!

Red welts popping up instantly! My net was haunted!

The stinging cells, known as nematocysts, are each capable of inflicting a sting. They readily brush off the body of the animal and onto the fabric of a net. It’s like a delayed revenge thing. Each individual cell bears a coiled spring-like structure that is capable of penetrating skin. It dispenses it’s stinging chemicals automatically when it is triggered by contact with prey or a would be predator.

& he signed it, Michaelangelo, SCULPTOR

Bicycles?

Well, traffic signals anyway. I doubt they were lit.

Why would a jellyfish sting you after you are already dead?

Why should traffic lights have been invented especially for automobiles? City traffic in London or Paris has been enormous already before 1868. But it’s also not correct that there were no automobiles (enginge driven carriages) at that time, they only didn’t play much of a role. It’s a common misunderstanding that the first car appeared in 1885 in Germany. This German invention was only the first car having a piston engine using gasoline. In the UK, there were already cars decades earlier, even public busses, driven by steam engines. The first steam-engine-driven car was presented by Nicholas Cugnot 1769 in Paris. But in France it failed to attract public attention, and the Brits invented steam-driven cars again some decades later, without initiating a general development outside Great Britain. Also much earlier than Benz’ “Motorwagen”, a Scottish engineer had build an electrically driven car (in the 1830s), but also failed to go public. It was really the Benz car to start the automobile revolution, therefore it became the symbol of being it’s starting point and was later misunderstood as the “invention of the car”.

Barbwire can do the same.

Rattlesnake can bite after it’s dead too.

“There once was a chapel named Sistine…”

Isn’t that a Portuguese man of war? not technically a jellyfish.

The heads of some varieties of beheaded snakes also bite when dead. Knew of a fellow who thought to keep the head of a snake he shot off during a close call while the snake was yet alive. It latched on while he was picking it up. After the near death experience and hospital stay I was told he changed his mind.

So do old love letters…

The can opener was not invented until nearly 50 years after the invention of the can.