Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 18, 2020

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    Boots at the Boar Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    A group of owls is called a flock: I don’t want to have to remember group names, especially owls, when I’ve never seen more than one at a time.

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    pearlsbs  almost 4 years ago

    Mars sunset.

    https://www.universetoday.com/120353/what-makes-mars-sunsets-different-from-earths/

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 4 years ago

    What was Franklin even doing with (as Jason Snake Lover would’ve done it) 1,201 bones?

    I wonder what color are the sunrises/-sets of Mercury are like.

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    jimmjonzz Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    The “terms of venery” were the words used for certain groupings. Originally they referred mostly to game animals and birds, including edible fish.

    It was all fanciful, a sort of name game for, um, naming game. The fun eventually extended to groups of people… beggars, judges, merchants, etc. And even to different types of animal droppings.

    But again, it was mostly a glossary of fun rather than function.

    Almost all are obsolete today, though a few persist. A gaggle of geese, right? But you are more likely to encounter them in crossword puzzles than in the real world.

    I have to admit, I do like “an exaltation of larks” which is the title of one published list of the terms.

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    jimmjonzz Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    The barrel eye fish are very weird looking. Their eyes are actually inside their heads! (See YouTube!)

    The eyes also have a broad range of movement. They can shift from looking ahead to looking straight up to looking to either side without having to move their bodies. Or their necks, which is handy because they don’t have necks.

    The evolutionary advantage is that they can see prey or predators swimming beside them, above them, below them… all at the same time.

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    flashdrive1988  almost 4 years ago

    1200 Bones = at least 6 people, minimum.

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    Bilan  almost 4 years ago

    So, it true. There is a parliament that’s wise.

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    therese_callahan2002  almost 4 years ago

    My personal parliament of owls consists of stuffed ones, plastic ones, wooden ones, metal ones, and even ceramic ones.

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    Gent  almost 4 years ago

    Well, it’s not that deep blue.

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    Gent  almost 4 years ago

    I dunno about ya owl, but I never knew this one.

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    pbr50138  almost 4 years ago

    So…is a group in parliament called “owls”?

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    Gent  almost 4 years ago

    And what are owl the people inside a parliament called?

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    James Wolfenstein  almost 4 years ago

    Benjackmin “The Ripper” Franklin????? :D

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    J Short  almost 4 years ago

    Ben was known to eat BBQ at the Grand Central Cafe in Texas.

    https://austin.eater.com/2019/10/25/20930935/texas-chainsaw-massacre-gas-station-restaurants-barbecue-where-to-find-them

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    dv1093  almost 4 years ago

    Was Ben Franklin a serial killer?

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  almost 4 years ago

    Well, Ben, we do feel disappointed in you once again.

    Take care, may the Ford be with you, and gesundheit.

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    Nala the Great  almost 4 years ago

    Was he a serial killer or just a big eater?

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    Nala the Great  almost 4 years ago

    And probably a lot wiser than our congress!

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    ncorgbl  almost 4 years ago

    The red planet has blue sunrise and sunsets, pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, and green clovers.

    Franklin threw some wild parties in London.

    When asked about Brexit the UK’s parliament answers ’Who?"

    Deep Sea Barrel eye fish are the mascot of the tRump Administration.

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    stamps  almost 4 years ago

    And according to QAnon, Nancy Pelosi inherited that basement.

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    Christopher Peckham  almost 4 years ago

    BF must have been a cannibal he hated the Brits so much

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    paranormal  almost 4 years ago

    So the UK is a bunch of owls?

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    ekke  almost 4 years ago

    The question is, wouldn’t a perfectly transparent eye be blind? I mean, we see because our sensitive cells intercept photons, right? But perfectly transparent would be defined by not affecting photons. So, deep-sea barreleye fish must not be deep-see. See?

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    Stephen Gilberg  almost 4 years ago

    I have to say, that barreleye illustration is unimpressive. Doesn’t look transparent at all.

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    ScottHolman  almost 4 years ago

    whose bones were they? Ben Franklin was a cannibal?

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    Craig Westlake  almost 4 years ago

    Historians now have a clearer idea of the cause of Ben’s portliness…

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    Craig Westlake  almost 4 years ago

    It’s an evolutionary adaptation for Barreleye fish that transport tourists on dive tours…

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    listmom  almost 4 years ago

    Most likely the bones in Ben’s basement were from dissections done by a friend of his. "The most plausible explanation is not mass murder, but an anatomy school run by Benjamin Franklin’s young friend and protege, William Hewson. He had been a pupil of the most brilliant anatomist of the day, William Hunter, but the two fell out and Hewson started his own anatomy school – at the home of his mother-in-law Margaret Stephenson, just off the Strand, where Benjamin Franklin was also a lodger for 16 years. " — the Guardian 11 Aug 2003https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/11/usa.past

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