Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 25, 2018

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 6 years ago

    The Wiggles’ travel idea is like the British royal family’s travel idea.

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    dlasher  almost 6 years ago

    A longer one (from Martin Gardner, “Mathematical Games” columnist for Scientific American); a sign at a pool:

    NOW NO SWIMS ON MON

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    Breadboard  almost 6 years ago

    punch71077345 into a calculator and turn upside down and it sort of looks like shell oil ….. Merry Christmas To All !

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    corpcasselbury  almost 6 years ago

    The Wiggles are still together and performing, though the original members have all retired.

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    PMark  almost 6 years ago

    OXO is a maker of kitchen utensils, housewares, and office supplies. It spells the same backwards, forwards, mirrored vertically, mirrored horizontally, and spun 90, 180, and 270 degrees.

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    Max Starman Jones  almost 6 years ago

    I am grateful they traveled that way. If the Wiggles had all died, they might have returned to the original puppets. This video is, to me, the scariest moment in children’s TV programming:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVV4h38wnMI

    I still play it occasionally for my now-adult children when they come to visit. For some reason, they are coming less and less.

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    charliefarmrhere  almost 6 years ago

    What if both planes crashed?

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  almost 6 years ago

    After a rum-n-eggnog or three everything looks like upside down dark matter on two airplanes.

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    aimlesscruzr  almost 6 years ago

    If we can’t detect dark matter, how can we tell that we’re in the middle of a dark matter “hurricane”?

    We can’t, it’s just a theory, and until the theory is proven true it’s still just a theory. And the theory is because there is a stream of stars passing through our local arm of the galaxy that came from a smaller galaxy that the Milky Way ripped apart, the scientists theorize that stream is accompanied by a stream of dark matter. And so to make it more exciting, they called it a “dark matter hurricane”.

    Wow, exciting, huh. So the meteorological equivalent of naming things dramatically (“polar vortex”?) has now caught on in other branches of science. Oh joy… SMH

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    petecocker  almost 6 years ago

    When turned upside down, the S is backwards. Sorry to ruin this.

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    TwoHedWlf  almost 6 years ago

    smiws? What’s a smiws?

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    anorok2  almost 6 years ago

    And Otto is Otto spelled backward and also Toot spelled inside out….I don’t know what the heck this means, but I had to say it. Why,I don’t know.

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    noreenklose  almost 6 years ago

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    ElGato  almost 6 years ago

    Aside from everything else: Merry Christmas — Feliz Navidad — Happy Holidays one and all!

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    The Sinistral Bassist Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    The Wiggles have an overinflated sense of self-importance

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    craigwestlake  almost 6 years ago

    I take it we should board up the windows in our dark matter houses?…

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    MosheWaisberg  almost 6 years ago

    who would have the heart to perform when half your band jus died?

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    Eugeno  almost 6 years ago

    Those who live by the motto “The show must go on”, and don’t know that that applies only once the show has started, NOT that you must do the show regardless of anything that happens before the show starts.

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    TMR  almost 6 years ago

    There was a fourth fact missing from this panel. It would have read, "Approximately 50% of people who read this column have difficulty differentiating between ‘upside down’ and ‘mirror image’. Believe it or Not! :-)

    BONUS FACT: What you see in the mirror each day is the opposite of what everyone sees when they look at you (yes, you’ve been parting your hair on the wrong side all these years. You’re welcome).

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