Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 05, 2025

I keep my balls around 86 degrees

To be literal, Wimbledon keeps the tennis balls at 20° Celsius, not Fahrenheit.

The Old Man and the Umbrella

As a teenager I had a summer job pumping gas. One week an older guy drove up and said he wanted a fill-up. Then he got out of the car with an umbrella, opened it, and followed me around as I worked, holding the umbrella over my head to keep the sun off me. I awkwardly thanked him as he paid his tab and drove away.

A week later, he came back for a fill up. Again, he got out of the car with the umbrella and opened it, but this time he just stood there watching me work. I asked, “So you’re not gonna use that to keep the sun off me this time?”

To which he retorted, “Watch it, young man. Fuel me once, shade on you. Fuel me twice, shade on me!”

That’s odd… where do you get Farenheits in Wimbledon? Are they importing degrees? Did they run out of Celsiuses after Brexit? :D

Deoxyribonucleic, over here.. in the pond, we’ve got more to do here.

So, Google paid the fine and Russia is now an economic powerhouse? Why doesn’t the legacy media apprise us of these facts!?

Good luck trying to collect on that fine, lol! They’ll never get a red ruble, their currency is cheaper than toilet paper and only half as useful!

And get the whiney reason Russia fined Google:

“Waaa, YouTube won’t play our videos!”

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Republicans want to quash the truth just like the Russians.

Don’t downplay the stupid: 20 decillion is not just “more than the entire world’s GDP”, it’s the equivalent of twenty five billion times the world’s GDP – for every single person on earth. You might as well say “a kazillion”, because it’s nothing resembling a useful number.

But is it 10 times smarter than average hooman?

Even rice has a longer DNA than humans.

Axolotl genes!

Gorillas also use foliage to shelter from rain.

Decillion has ten groups of 3 zeros, so icosadrillion should have 20 groups of 3 zeros

I wonder why there seems to be no connection between chromosome number and organism complexity.

The planetary GDP is about $100 trillion. I might be messing this up but that fine is 200,000,000,000,000,000,000 times bigger.

Axolotls may well have 32 million DNA base PAIRS, but they have the same 4 bases we all do: Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine & Thymine. Cheers!

The CEO of IKEA was just elected president in Sweden.

He should have his cabinet together by the end of the week.

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Ikea stuff

Two guys are building shelfs for the others mom.

After they’re finished, the other guys’ mom comes in and says: ”You managed to build them this fast? You guys should be proud of yourshelfs!”

Axolotls are listed as critically endangered. They are endemic to the Mexican Central Valley & their native habitat is now limited to Lake Xochimilco.