Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 13, 2025

…Also useful for keeping the Wryneck chicks in line.

Just keep that birch bark bandage away from open flames.

For the Wryneck, I think he meant “almost 360 degrees.” I can easily turn my head slightly over 180 degrees.

The katydid’s trick shows that some Acme products are pretty good.

The Katydid story is interesting ;)

(1.) When my GP put one of these on my arm, l thought he was barking mad.

He was! It was my _leg_that was bleeding!

(2.) The Eurasian Wryneck never wins at Poker. Not because it’s always twisting but because it’s a bird and can’t hold cards.

(3.) A nun badly needing to use the restroom walked into a local…

She’s the reason near-sighted male Katydids are making out with leaves.

Owls can do that too.

…and the wind whispers, leaf me alone…

Hidden by a leaf —which has been effectively removed to keep all innocent minds from being tarnished, I can only assume, can be found at Tinyurl.Com/2uz8d2f4

Spider Webs. I was working on a farm, an old European visitor had an accident, his hand was crushed between to plates of steel, the hand was not cut or crushed off, but very damaged. He immediately grabbed all the dusty spider webs around the windows and wrapped his hand.

The ambulance arrived and he refused treatment by the paramedics, but wanted to go to the hospital, they refused because he did not want treatment. The police officer drove him to ER.

The doctor said he should be passed out from the pain and damage. But the spider webs were suppressing it. The hand was stabilized, the Old Guy came back to the farm again for more spider webs, from another barn.The ER doctor never saw anything like and left the ER to investigate this and other old remedies.

I learned from watching Alaskan reality tv shows that birch bark is the perfect tinder that will catch fire even when wet and when temps are well below 0 degrees.

Katy did but wouldn’t admit it.

When you’re out in the forest bleeding profusely, make sure to save some time for cutting birch bark

I put a tap in a birch tree once. Unfortunately, I didn’t get any Birch Beer