Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 13, 2022

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 2 years ago

    Is the other 93% of human body weight water?

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    flashdrive1988  over 2 years ago

    “Plants eat light” …. interesting way to describe photosynthesis. More incredible is that this process of “eating light” has kept us animals sustained for hundreds of millions of years with its waste product — oxygen.

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    Charlie Fogwhistle  over 2 years ago

    A guy walks into a bar and orders a beer. “I recently entered a competition to see who gained the most weight and lost the most hair,” he tells the bartender.

    “What the heck? Why?” the bartender asks.“Oh, they didn’t call it that,” the guy replies. “It was advertised as ‘high school class reunion,’”

    One more? Sure.

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    Charlie Fogwhistle  over 2 years ago

    A young boy enters a barber shop, and the barber whispers to his customer, “This is the dumbest kid in the world. Watch while I prove it to you.”

    The barber puts a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters in the other, then calls the boy over and asks, “Which do you want, son?” The boy takes the quarters and leaves.

    “What did I tell you?” said the barber. “That kid never learns!”

    Later, when the customer leaves, he sees the same young boy coming out of the ice cream parlor.

    “Hey, son! May I ask you a question? Why did you take the quarters instead of the dollar bill?”

    The boy licked his cone and replied: “Because the day I take the dollar the game is over!”

    Maybe another.

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    Charlie Fogwhistle  over 2 years ago

    A little old man stuck his head into a barbershop and asked“How long before I can get a haircut?”

    The barber looked around the shop full of customers and said, “About 2 hours from now.” The old guy left.

    A few days later, the same guy stuck his head in the door and asked, “How long before I can get a haircut?”

    The barber looked around at the shop and said, “About 3 hours.” The old guy left.

    A week later, the same guy stuck his head in the shop and asked, “How long before I can get a haircut?”

    The barber looked around the shop and said, “About an hour and a half…”. The old guy left.

    The barber turned to his friend and said, “Hey, Jason, do me a favor. Follow that old man and see where he goes. He keeps asking how long he has to wait for a haircut, but he never comes back.”

    A little while later, Jason returned to the shop, laughing hysterically.

    The barber asked, “So, where does that little old man go when he leaves?”

    Jason looked up, wiped the tears from his eyes and said, “Your house!”

    O.K., that’s enough. Until next time.

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    theincrediblebulk  over 2 years ago

    Ok I’m going to call BS on the 7% of body weight being blood. As one probably realises from my user name I’m a heavy guy I have weighed about 280 lbs since I was 13 years old, my weight rarely fluctuates between doctor weigh ins by more than + or – 2lbs. According to that formula I have about 19.6 lbs of blood in my body. When i was a young man , in my 20’s i got sick. Couldn’t keep food down and could barely keep any water down. In the span of 2 weeks I lost over 100 lbs. Again according to the Rbion fact I would have only had about 12.6lbs of blood left when i started recovering. The thing is my body size didn’t change, just the amount of fat i was carrying around. How could one’s body lose that much blood without bleeding, and no reduction in size, only a reduction in mass? And wouldn’t that have caused issues with the amount of oxygen, nutrients, etc. traveling through my body in the blood stream?

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    hawgowar  over 2 years ago

    Humans also emit light, but too dim and in the wrong wavelengths for us to see.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  over 2 years ago

    Well that makes sense for a people who have A-Z as the first two letters of their name. We do the same thing. ~ Robert Gonzalez, Azusa, California Mayor

    Take care, may Hemoglobin, Perspiration, and Epiphoras band member David “Pay No Attention To The Geritol Logo On The Bass Drum” Clayton-Thomasord be with you, and gesundheit.

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    markhughw  over 2 years ago

    Ex Ax Ah Huan Ilitz Lie

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    scpandich  over 2 years ago

    Aztec kids learned the three Rs: Reading, ’Riting, and Ripping Still Beating Hearts Out of Chests.

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    WCraft Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Aztec teacher to students: Class – today I’m going to teach you how to lop off the head of a captive so that it rolls perfectly down the side of the mound…

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    Will E. Makeit Premium Member over 2 years ago

    if light is invisible to the eye then how do we know it’s really there…

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    stamps  over 2 years ago

    Nice touch with the xolopitli hat.

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    mindjob  over 2 years ago

    1% of my body weight is only available by prescription

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    Jogger2  over 2 years ago

    NASA figured out how they could use satellites to detect that light given off by plants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XilneV3cJI .

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    Jaime Jean M  over 2 years ago

    Exaxahuaniliztli: a heavy flow or spilling of blood; a rain of blood. Not a word commonly used in Mexico where words with Nahua roots are often used – but it could be, considering recent events.

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    Ms Max Premium Member over 2 years ago

    the Aztec empire was located in Mexico, Central America.

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    Cathy P.  over 2 years ago

    In the Amish communities in USA, the children only go to school until age 16, even if they want to go past then.

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