Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 18, 2024

(3) That’s food for thought

A group of jellyfish is known as a snack.

There’s something fishy about todays RBION.

So, I’ll bet the taste buds of a giant squid are in its brain.

Ah, “tentacles”, I see it now. Read it too quickly the first time and thought, “no way, nothing on Earth has nuts that big”.

Jellyfish kill more people than sharks, sea snakes, and stingrays combined.

If you think about, our brains are just on the other side of the soft membrane at the back roof of our mouths, so food slips past our brains before reaching our stomachs.

On rare occasions, the Man ’O War has washed up on our beach. Definitely, not to be trifled with!

Oops, scanning this quickly my eye changed one of the words in the Portuguese Man-of-War description. Somehow I changed an N to an S, and suddenly I was amazed/appalled as I never have been before over a RBION item. Fortunately my eye quickly recovered from its error.

Food doesn’t literally pass through a brain of a giant squid. The brain and some connected ganglia form a ring around part of the esophagus.

Well I have swimmed thru a smack! It’s neither fun or light hearted. If your wearing a full wet suit you still get stung! And surfing thru them is no fun at all.

‘through’ is true but misleading. an octopus’ brain is a ring around the base of its tentacles. the gut goes through it. like pushing a rain through a donut hole…

Every donut passes through my brain first – when I’m staring at the display case trying to decide.

So if a group of jellyfish is sometimes called a smack, what’s it called the rest of the time?