Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 12, 2023

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    Copy-&-Paste  over 1 year ago

    Today’s RBorN Bugs me!

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    monkeysky  over 1 year ago

    There are actually a few species of frogs still extant today which can get larger than the average devil frog, and most of them will feed on small reptiles if they have the chance.

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    sergioandrade Premium Member over 1 year ago

    A fungus that eats radiation sounds like the beginning of a movie made for the SyFy network.

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    jmolay161  over 1 year ago

    I had never heard of winged ants. If they can fly, then maybe the Queen wants to establish a new ant colony.

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    jmolay161  over 1 year ago

    Maybe a radiation eating fungus could thrive on Mars and help protect human explorers there.

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    therese_callahan2002  over 1 year ago

    I remember the story about the wide-mouthed frog.

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    Frankolino1313  over 1 year ago

    One cannot eat radiation. You can eat radioactive material though. Radiation is the particles and energy released from a radioactive substance upon its decay. I used to teach the difference between radiation and radioactive contamination using the cow pasture analogy. You smell the cow poop, that’s the radiation. You step in the cow pie and now you are contaminated with radioactive material. You can eat the cow pie just as you can eat radioactive materials but I don’t recommend it!

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    Flynn White Premium Member over 1 year ago

    There’s a fungus among-us. Well, somebody had to say it.

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    fuzzbucket Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Larger dinosaurs ate devil frogs. Now I’m hungry for deviled eggs.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  over 1 year ago

    “I’ll have a large Communist Totalitarian Latte with extra Excuses please.”

    Take care, may cooking wine enthusiast Mable “Flying Aunt” McVermouthord be with you, and gesundheit.

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    William Robbins Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I wonder what kind of trip you get on mutated Amanitas… Not sure there are any in Chernobyl.

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    ladykat  over 1 year ago

    Re the Starbucks on the Great Wall of China: how crass can you get??!!

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    jmolay161  over 1 year ago

    Imagine Indiana Jones fighting off flying fire ants.

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    jmolay161  over 1 year ago

    That China Starbucks would have the longest outdoor Cafe ever, with a nice view. Should release some big BALLOONS to celebrate.

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    poppacapsmokeblower  over 1 year ago

    Since the atomic bomb testing has increased everything’s radiation levels that fungus may conquer the world.

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    yangeldf  over 1 year ago

    what does “eats radiation” mean? Does that mean it absorbs the radioactive particles, merely tolerates radioactive versions of elements that all living things use, or does it actually gain energy from radioactivity like some weird version of photosynthesis?

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    mindjob  over 1 year ago

    I’m thinking that fungus evolved at Chernobyl because a new food supply became available there

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 1 year ago

    How’a that Chinese Starbucks coming along? Business booming?

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    stamps  over 1 year ago

    That fungus does nothing to diminish the radiation. In fact, it may concentrate it.

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    oish  over 1 year ago

    Add some golden arches and you got the great mall of China

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    donut reply  over 1 year ago

    Dozens of flying ants would end up in my pool about early Summer.

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    heathcliff2  over 1 year ago

    How will the fungus manage after a few million years?

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    WCraft Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Yes, but is there a Subway sandwich shop on the Great Wall of China?

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    spaced man spliff  over 1 year ago

    What do you call religious mushrooms?

    Fungumentalists!!

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    198.23.5.11  over 1 year ago

    In 2006,stomach ailments in China increased 30%

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