Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 31, 2016
Transcript:
New Year Hairy like the Wolfe! Mike Wolfe of Nampa, Idaho, shaved a calendar of seasonal art into his back hair! Newt Thomas of Berwick, Ohio, can spell words backward as quickly as most people spell them forward! On Middle Island, off the coast of Victoria, Australia, Maremma sheepdogs protect a colony of the world's smallest penguins from predators.
Templo S.U.D. over 8 years ago
How small is these Australian penguins?
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr over 8 years ago
Unless Mike Wolfe was extremely double-jointed, he had someone do the shaving for him.
KeepKeeper over 8 years ago
They be about 13 inches tall.
Kirby_Dots over 8 years ago
The back hair one is not so much, “Believe It or Not.”
It is much more, “Why?”
Old Texan75 over 8 years ago
Jerry Lucas, basketball star of the 1960s, could spell a word backwards, and not only that, he could recite the letters in alphabetical order, all faster than anyone else could spell the word. He could remember the word days or weeks as long as he needed it. In college he was a straight A student, owing to his intelligence and use of memory systems that he invented on his own.
comixbomix over 8 years ago
…on gib laed…
Jeff P Premium Member over 8 years ago
Phlash Phelps of the 60’s on 6 on SIRIUS/XM can recite the names of the States backwards in less than 20-seconds!
corpcasselbury over 8 years ago
One has to wonder who initially posted the dogs to protect the penguins, and if the same people take care of the canines.
Lamberger over 8 years ago
My superpower is: I can recite all symbols in the binary language in less than a second. Oh, it’s so hard to be humble….
Lamberger over 8 years ago
My sister’s bumper sticker: “Being Dyslexic Means Never Having to Say You’re Rossy”….
Max Starman Jones over 8 years ago
I knew it would happen. After all these years, Ripley has run out of fun facts…
chain gang charlie over 8 years ago
I could always write words backwards (readable in a mirror) with my left hand, sometimes simultaneously with my right hand (normal writing)….Taken me years to play a base line on The piano…Go figure!
Tossle Premium Member over 8 years ago
There is a recent movie about the dog protecting the penguins.
‘Oddball’.
Dean over 8 years ago
In the old days before “Greenscreen” we would watch a weather reporter stand behind a glass map and write his notes, temps etc. in reverse (to him) so as to be forward viewing to the camera. He usually had a marker in each hand for each digit like “66”.