Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 15, 2023

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    Copy-&-Paste  almost 2 years ago

    See by way of tongue? What will they think of next….

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 2 years ago

    As much as I’m not that bad of being visually impaired, sure would like to know how my sense of taste electrically helps my sense of sight.

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    Izzy Moreno  almost 2 years ago

    I never did like to read “we” and “our” when it’s a sole author.

    You see that a lot with those millennial “news” sites and videos.

    It gives off such a corporate non-identity feeling. So fake. Inhuman, even.

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    jmolay161  almost 2 years ago

    That co-author cat probably went on to invent the first cat videos.

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    jmolay161  almost 2 years ago

    The co-author was catapulted to fame.

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    monkeysky  almost 2 years ago

    Oh man, the BrainPort is pretty incredible. It basically “just” uses a camera to convert an image into electrical impulses on the surface of the tongue, but it’s actually been found that in blind people, this actually forms connections between the tongue and the visual cortex. One man, Eric Weihenmayer, even uses it for rock climbing, allowing him to get to the top of Everest.

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    fuzzbucket Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    Have you ever touched a 9 volt battery to your tongue?

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    alscoonz2  almost 2 years ago

    Once!

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    therese_callahan2002  almost 2 years ago

    Jefferson Airplane already had that all figured out. “One man on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go.”

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    tremaine53  almost 2 years ago

    My cat has authored a few Pulitzer Prize winning hairballs.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  almost 2 years ago

    So he couldn’t bring himself to give the cat full credit.

    Take care, may relentless town crier Lliam “My Tongue Sees All Hears All And Speaks All And All In Good Taste” Gazettord be with you, and gesundheit.

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    artegal  almost 2 years ago

    I guess now Geordi’s banana clip visor from TNG doesn’t look so bad (see what I did there?).

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    Pickled Pete  almost 2 years ago

    To anyone reading this, I’ve sent a letter to Andrews McMeel Universal in Kansas City regarding the unfairness of the suspension system without notification. Will keep you posted if/when I get a reply.

    Second, the moniker JohnShirley1 only appears in Ripley’s, doesn’t google in like all other profiles when you do JohnShirley1 gocomics. Hasn’t appeared for a few days. Could it be that this dude is actually a moderator disguising himself as one of us??

    Very Suspicious! here’s the link:

    https://www.gocomics.com/profile/3251085
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    198.23.5.11  almost 2 years ago

    And the cat got all the royalties

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    198.23.5.11  almost 2 years ago

    Believe it or not,George Santos still doesn’t know what his real name is

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    stamps  almost 2 years ago

    Was that one of Schrodinger’s cats?

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    sergioandrade Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    To parapharse Mark Twain “The only people who should refer to themselves as ‘we’ are royality, editors, and people with tapeworms.”

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    mindjob  almost 2 years ago

    There is surgery for blindness but I don’t know how common or expensive it is

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    jmcenanly  almost 2 years ago

    The BrainPort™ is a distant ancestor to Geordi LaForge’s VISOR

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    MichiganMitten  almost 2 years ago

    Hetherington was a Michigan State professor, interestingly enough.

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    Bilan  almost 2 years ago

    So when the blind users suddenly tastes sour, it means they’re about to bump their head?

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