Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 23, 2013
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Transcript:
Woodpeckers contact trees up to 20 times a second and 12,000 times per day! Pule, a cheese from Serbia made from donkey milk, is the most expensive in the world costing more than $1,200 per kilo! Farmer Sun Jifa, Jilin Province, China, spent 8 years constructing bionic hands for himself after losing both arms in an accident!
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Templo S.U.D. almost 12 years ago
So how did Mr. Sun build hands without hands?
el8 almost 12 years ago
Ass cheese? Doesn’t sound too appetizing.
comics almost 12 years ago
Interesting story, Gweedo. Apparently he lost his arms by attempting to make a bomb.
Frog-on-a-Log Premium Member almost 12 years ago
And the woodpeckers do just that right outside my window every morning!
Kathy M T M Premium Member almost 12 years ago
thanks, that is amazing
dodgeedwardusa almost 12 years ago
I didn’t know that Donkeys produced milk.
gocomicsmember almost 12 years ago
Fascinating link, but that article also fails to mention how he managed the construction before he had his first prototype to use in constructing the later ones. Inquiring minds want to know.
Puddleglum2 almost 12 years ago
“Hands Across the Ocean.”
Puddleglum2 almost 12 years ago
The woodpecker is riveted to his work.
AmyGrantfan51774 almost 12 years ago
As Arte Johson would say verrrrrrrryyyy innnnnttttttteeeee serrrrreeeessttttiiiinnnnnggg about the woodpecker…..saw a woodpecker in a cartoom in Readers’ Digest in ‘77 or ’78 who was pecking on a tree but waearing earmuffs cute huh???…in ’84 I went to the Houston science museum on a field trip in school and saw a woodpecker that’d been killed when it pecked through a pole that had an electrical wire on it..that confused me I thought they were tough birds
AmyGrantfan51774 almost 12 years ago
ooops that should be cartoon