Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 10, 2014
July 09, 2014
July 11, 2014
Transcript:
Hey... That sounds like...! Elephants can identify over 100 different other elephants from their calls at a distance of several miles. Hookworm disease, once common in rural southern USA, can make the sufferer want to eat dirt. More than half of all Americans cannot swim, according to a recent survey.
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Templo S.U.D. over 10 years ago
How recent of a survey that over 50% Americans can’t swim?
BearsDown Premium Member over 10 years ago
Maybe hookworm disease explains grits.
Dkram over 10 years ago
Humans are born knowing how to swim, but, as they grow they forget..\\//_
corpcasselbury over 10 years ago
I was in the U.S. Navy back in the 1980s, and when people find out that I can’t swim, they ask me, “But didn’t the Navy teach you how to swim?” To which I reply, “No.” The USN did, however. teach me how to make a floatation device out of a pair of dungaree trousers (and this does actually work, BTW).
louieglutz over 10 years ago
you have to like bull sharks to swim in florida.
Carl Rennhack Premium Member over 10 years ago
But elephants are poor baggage handlers, because all the trunks look alike!
4thStooge over 10 years ago
The elephant with hookworm disease didn’t know how to swim.
spaced man spliff over 10 years ago
Elephants are good swimmers too. ….-Izzat cuz they always carry their trunks with them?
english.ann over 10 years ago
Corpcasselbury,I’m assuming that you did learn drownproofing, learning to float staying in one place, holding your breath most of the time, relaxing. And that when you made a flotation device out of dungarees, you were in the water with them, possibly taking them off first, then moving and bending your legs up and down while you were sealing the legs of those trousers.