Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 26, 2020

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 4 years ago

    Aerosmith sure lived on the edge before the development of Guitar Hero.

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    sevaar777  about 4 years ago

    “Polly want a lamb chop”?

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    eromlig  about 4 years ago

    Jason? Did your snake bite you?

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    Caldonia  about 4 years ago

    The Aerosmith fact reminds me of the episode of South Park where the boys were obsessed with Guitar Hero. Randy thought his son wanted to learn to play an actual guitar, but nope, he only wanted to play a video game. Sad, really.

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    jimmjonzz Premium Member about 4 years ago

    The parrot thing: Whenever there’s an under-used niche in a heavily populatednatural environment, at some point nature will fill it.

    The famously diverse finches of the Galapagos are the classic example. There are so many finches and a finite amount of their favored diet of seeds that dozens of kinds have evolved to exploit every available food source. One has developed the ability to peck away at trees to eat the parasites under the bark. (An open ecological niche because there are no woodpeckers there.)

    And the vampire finch gets its nourishment mainly from blood. It lights on the head or back of an animal, bites a hole, drinks the blood.

    Charles Darwin first inventoried these finches during his famous world-circling voyage of biological discovery. He sketched the many varieties of finch beaks and these were influential in his formulation of the theory of change through natural selection.

    As a group, they are still called Darwin’s Finched.

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    Gent  about 4 years ago

    Eh? Never heard of that game.

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    Buzzworld  about 4 years ago

    A Kea eats seals that sings Aerosmith songs.

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    6turtle9  about 4 years ago

    Save Frog Applause!

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    The Pro from Dover  about 4 years ago

    Baa!

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    J Short  about 4 years ago

    The Kea parrot can’t build a nest without instructions.

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    J Short  about 4 years ago

    Yea the seal “sings” the song, and every word in is Wuh, Wuh, Wuh,…

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    rdav1248961 Premium Member about 4 years ago

    Keas are cheeky birds. They will also eat hiking boots and rubber on cars.

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    Casey Jones  about 4 years ago

    But, can they get the Seal to sing “Kissed by a rose?”

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    UmmeMoosa  about 4 years ago

    Well,,, they do you say, Eat the Rich.

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    cactusbob333  about 4 years ago

    Ikea is a carnivorous furniture company.

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    dmagoon202ii  about 4 years ago

    Good thing humans are not on the kea’s menu.

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    Radish...   about 4 years ago

    I’m picturing this parrot flying off with a sheep in its talons, its like a Monty Python sketch, the parrot is flying back to the fjords with a winter supply of food. How fast can the parrot fly? Is it laden or unladen…

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    celeconecca  about 4 years ago

    zola: https://youtu.be/aU8ZT5IOqd0

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  about 4 years ago

    Politicians world wide feed on live sheep.

    Take care and gesundheit.

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    stamps  about 4 years ago

    Was the Kea descended from T. Rex?

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    ncorgbl  about 4 years ago

    The New Zealand KIA is the only car used to run over sheep eating parrots.

    Smith Brothers earned more from their cough drops than Aerosmith from all their albums and video games.

    In the wee hours, after the scientists left for home, Zola sneaks out the back entrance and hops in a van taking her to The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. They got the band back together.

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    Space_cat  about 4 years ago

    Me: “Polly want a cracker?” Polly: “Polly wants your soul!”

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    Chad Cheetah  about 4 years ago

    All interesting tidbits today!

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    Stephen Gilberg  about 4 years ago

    I’ve seen a kea up close. Had no idea it was so dangerous.

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    Ripplin Premium Member about 4 years ago

    I’m sure Aerosmith earned that money in a very short amount of time, too.

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    Attwater's prairie chicken  about 4 years ago

    On this day in history on September 26 1901 Leon Czolgosz, who murdered President William McKinley, is sentenced to death.

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    craigwestlake  about 4 years ago

    But Zola absolutely refuses to sing the Beatles “I Am the Walrus”…

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    Jethro Flatline  about 4 years ago

    Aerosmith literally had a video game in 1994: “Revolution X”

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