Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 17, 2013
May 16, 2013
May 18, 2013
Transcript:
Male Six Spot Burnet moths give cyanide poison to females as gifts when mating! Americans consumed more than one billion chicken wings while watching Super Bowl XLV! Tommy Carroll from Glenview, Illinois, is a blind skateboarder!
Is this bug on the UN’s bug consumption list! I think it is absolutely ridiculous the UN thinks everyone should eat bugs. I don’t freak when a bug flies into my mouth and I swallow it, but as a staple meal for the everyone?
I don’t know if Tommy used the tongue clicking sonar technique, but quite a few blind people are learning that method of sight/sonar. They click their tongues and get a mental image of the surrounding area, MRIs are now showing that there is a change in the brain that supports this method of “sight” We had a guy at work that did this, everyone was told what he was doing “so don’t be alarmed”
I’m more impressed by blind video gamers: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2266516/Meet-blind-teenager-Ben-Breen-cracked-video-game-world-relying-solely-sound.html
I went to that website. very nice! I’m a quaker and a most of the time vegetarian. I’ve got milk and gluten intolerance so sometimes eat meat because of too little other stuff. I will probably subscribe.
Templo S.U.D. over 11 years ago
I’d like to know Tommy’s technique.
edclectic over 11 years ago
Well, after a 12-pack, most Americans thought they were chicken wings…
joe piglet Premium Member over 11 years ago
Is this bug on the UN’s bug consumption list! I think it is absolutely ridiculous the UN thinks everyone should eat bugs. I don’t freak when a bug flies into my mouth and I swallow it, but as a staple meal for the everyone?
joe piglet Premium Member over 11 years ago
I don’t know if Tommy used the tongue clicking sonar technique, but quite a few blind people are learning that method of sight/sonar. They click their tongues and get a mental image of the surrounding area, MRIs are now showing that there is a change in the brain that supports this method of “sight” We had a guy at work that did this, everyone was told what he was doing “so don’t be alarmed”
Johnny Galt over 11 years ago
The chicken is the most populous bird on earth and also about the only thing we eat before and after it’s born, salmon roe excepted.
Stephen Gilberg over 11 years ago
I’m more impressed by blind video gamers: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2266516/Meet-blind-teenager-Ben-Breen-cracked-video-game-world-relying-solely-sound.html
Fuzzy Thinker Premium Member over 11 years ago
Are there a lot of chickens walking around with amputated wings?
ProfLindenbrook over 11 years ago
Oh, look who’s back. Put a sock in it , Josie!
pam Miner over 11 years ago
I went to that website. very nice! I’m a quaker and a most of the time vegetarian. I’ve got milk and gluten intolerance so sometimes eat meat because of too little other stuff. I will probably subscribe.
John Rodriquez Premium Member over 11 years ago
I guess that a future item of Ripley’s is that Tommy Carrol holds the world record for collisions with power poles.