Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 10, 2025

True about the Wright brothers, but the loser of the coin toss made the first successful flight.

Dogs can also be trained to sniff out truffles.

Pete, where are you? It’s gone 8…

Coin Flipping !

Last year a guy took his girlfriend to the Superbowl. They had great seats right behind their team’s bench.

After the game, he asked her how she liked it.

“Oh, I really liked it,” she replied, “especially the tight pants and all the big muscles, but I just couldn’t understand why they were killing each other over 25 cents.”

Dumbfounded, her boyfriend asked, “What do you mean?”

“Well, they flipped a coin, one team got it, then for the rest of the game, all they kept screaming was…‘Get the quarterback! Get the quarterback!’

Then after a short pause she says, “I’m like…Helloooooo? It’s only 25 cents!”

On Drunk History there was a segment on the Wright Brothers sister, Katherine, she ran the bicycle shop while W & O were in South Carolina and took care of Orville after he crashed, also complained she earned less than her male colleagues.

Did the winner of the coin flip get to remain safely on the ground?

How many trilobites does it take to make a gigabyte?

trilobites been around since the Devonian period of geology; better survival rate than cockroaches.

Flipping a coin was the wright thing to do.

Pigs, like dogs, have a great sense of smell whereas humans cannot even smell the farts they think they’ve snuck out.

Did they flip a coin to see who would flip the coin? Ad infinitum…

How does the beetle reproduce if she never reaches puberty?

Truffles must really stink! Test them out on Limburger cheese!!!

… and loser got to ride the plane …

That first flight could have taken off, flown and landed inside the cabin of a 747. Suited a lot of progress in 66 years. The 747 is more than 50 years old.

A coin flip also determined that a city in Oregon would be called Portland, not Boston.

and Orville lost

The winner …….. of the coin toss .. said …. “Heads I win …. Tails you lose” …. :)

Fun Fact: Wilbur won the toss, but Orville made the first flight three days later. Any guesses why (no cheating!)? :)

The Wright brothers had a Wright sister, Katherine, that was the driving force behind their entire enterprise. Erased from history because she was female.