Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 17, 2021

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    pearlsbs  over 3 years ago

    According to Wikipedia the stones spheres vary in size and weight up to 15 tons.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_spheres_of_Costa_Rica

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 3 years ago

    how goes the Australian Reptile Park’s cause five months later?

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    Caldonia  over 3 years ago

    The reptile park wants spiders. Does the spider park want reptiles?

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    Cool Hand Luke Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Those aren’t stones….they’re giant balls of twine left out in the weather for centuries!

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    Kwen  over 3 years ago

    According to their toys, those old Costa Rica kitty cats must have been something to see!

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    therese_callahan2002  over 3 years ago

    Those stone balls may have been built by the same people who sculpted the Easter Island statues, and built the pyramids-aliens.

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    UmmeMoosa  over 3 years ago

    I don’t think they were made, that is what water naturally does to Rocks. It is expected in areas with a lot of torrential rain and by bodies of water. Why do you think rocks by river banks or lakes are so smooth and perfectly round in shape?

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    mindjob  over 3 years ago

    Some giant playing marbles had to leave in a hurry

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    Gent  over 3 years ago

    Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that it was the work of giant outer space aliens who loved to play rock marbles.

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    Technicholls  over 3 years ago

    Learn more: https://www.reptilepark.com.au/animals-at-the-australian-reptile-park/venom-program/spider-drop-off-points/

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 3 years ago

    How many people were bite trying to trap the spiders?

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    fuzzbucket Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Those are ball bearings. You oughta see the bicycle they came from.

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    AZCoyote  over 3 years ago

    It doesn’t look “perfectly” spherical.

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    The Pro from Dover  over 3 years ago

    Well I’m rather upper class high society

    God’s gift to ballroom notoriety

    And I always fill my ballroom

    The event is never small

    The social pages say I’ve got

    The biggest balls of all

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  over 3 years ago

    Castrated stone dudes of ancient times.

    Take care, may famed falsetto lyricist Angus “Squeaky” McChord be with you, and gesundheit.

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    sandpiper  over 3 years ago

    Milking spiders. I’m guessing one needs a really tiny bucket and very small hands.

    As to the giant balls, when the gods play, they sometimes leave their toys behind.

    Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s works always evoke wonder in the eyes and minds of viewers. So different from the posed and stiff portraits of earlier times. So alive, yet ephemeral, as if seen in the half-light of evening or a dream. One can only marvel and remember.

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    comixbomix  over 3 years ago

    This is why the Easter Island heads can’t have children.

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    drycurt  over 3 years ago

    They’re the golf balls left by the pyramid builders. I would go with the marble theory, but the pyramids are too precisely constructed.

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    cactusbob333  over 3 years ago

    If you want us to milk spiders, you have to tell us where the udder is located. I looked and looked but couldn’t find it. And I can tell you, the spiders don’t much like it. Maybe they were boy spiders.

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    pbr50138  over 3 years ago

    4,000 paintings? They must have been pretty bad, since none were really famous.

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    J Short  over 3 years ago

    Giant Bocce Ball was short lived because it took 25 guys per team to roll the ball; foot injuries were common.

    Australia: Where Satan keeps his pets.

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    Wlly Blly  over 3 years ago

    They should X-Ray those stone balls to reveal the aliens inside.

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    poppacapsmokeblower  over 3 years ago

    If you carved the stone balls at the top of a hill, which you were defending, you could roll them down at attackers without fear of them using your weapon against you.

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    JoshHere  over 3 years ago

    People are so ignoramus. Those are not balls, they are baby moons, that eventually will ascend to space and take their place as moons to needy planets. Sigh, it’s so tiresome being smart.

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    Nancy Simpson  over 3 years ago

    Are we back in lonely-old men’s corny old jokes mode?

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    Nancy Simpson  over 3 years ago

    My daughter got her skin-diving certification in Costa Rica. Said it was gorgeous. No treks into the jungle, though.

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    Dkram  over 3 years ago

    You load sixteen tons and what do you get,

    Another day older and deeper in debt.

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    RonnieAThompson Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Perhaps the giant stones were used to knock over giant bowling pins.

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    spaced man spliff  over 3 years ago

    Howcome Aussie-land has the deadliest everything?

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    Saddenedby Premium Member over 3 years ago

    experts say that there was probably a race of giants living in Costa Rica that played golf thousands of years ago or was it millions. Renoir’s wife was so mad at him during his lifetime because he was always too busy painting to take her or the garbage out. funnel spiders are where funnel cake comes from. believe it or not.

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    Taracinablue  over 3 years ago

    There should be warnings before pictures of arachnids on the internet…

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