Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 04, 2016
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The precise location of the world's oldest pre- a 4847-year-old Bristlecone Pine- is kept secret to ensure its safety. On the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia, after a wedding is over, guests lay facedown in the dirt for the newlyweds to walk across them as they exit. Uuuuh!! According to the University of Nebraska, tennis players can hit the ball 4 percent harder when they grunt while serving!
johnt204 about 8 years ago
Can that be correlated with why we scream when in intense pain? Does screaming really do any good?
Templo S.U.D. about 8 years ago
If the approximate 5000-year-old tree’s location is secret, how do they know the tree’s age?
Bilan about 8 years ago
That Marquesas Island wedding tradition would not be so popular in Samoa.
Old Texan75 about 8 years ago
It’s a shame that the 5000 yo tree’s location has to be kept secret to preserve it. Who would kill a tree? Well, they are out there. Look up the Treaty Oak in Austin, TX. An ex-con poured a poison around the tree to impress his meth-counselor, who he was “in love” with. The oak barely survived, how a third of it’s original size.
Cloudchaser about 8 years ago
It happens rarely, but this time, Ripley’s is wrong. The world’s oldest tree is 9,550 years old and it’s location is not a secrethttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080416104320.htm
NeedaChuckle Premium Member about 8 years ago
What if the bride is wearing spike heels? Ouch!
PDXCubbie about 8 years ago
Maria Sharapova is really good at the grunting part, every time I watch her play it drives me crazy when she does it, it’s so annoying! LOL!
tom_wright about 8 years ago
Afterward it’s only the husband that gets walked over.
SD1 Patrol about 8 years ago
rah oh ya i was four percent smarter
starcandles Premium Member about 8 years ago
In martial arts, we kihap when we strike. Same premise. Plus, it tightens the solar plexus to withstand a punch or strike. Grunts, kihaps, battle cries, etc., all serve the same purpose. Sudden exhalation of air adds power to the strike.
Max Starman Jones about 8 years ago
Unless it is a custom that is no longer observed and we are using past tense, I would say that the guests “lie” face down.
Max Starman Jones about 8 years ago
Q. Why did the tennis player quit making noise at the tournament?A. She was a disgruntled tennis player.
SeaFox10 about 8 years ago
Wait a minute! Didn’t someone hit that tree with a truck ,and kill it?!? I heard that in the news!
kaboobs about 8 years ago
How about when the fart? Out to be some extra propulsion there…
MissScarlet Premium Member about 8 years ago
I stopped watching women’s tennis when they started grunting.There is a fig tree in Santa Barbara that was alive in 1492. It stopped the construction of the 101 for decades because they had to work around it.
chain gang charlie about 8 years ago
Great science…So how come no one could ever figure out how OldZsa Zsa Gabor was…Couldn’t they count the face lift scars?
markhughw about 8 years ago
The tree is in the White Mountains in CA, but the exact location is secret.
askaMoose about 8 years ago
When I visited the tree in the late 50s’ and early 60s’ the location was not secret but was hard to drive to its’ location in the White Mountains.
RonBerg13 Premium Member about 8 years ago
That bristlecone pine is protected because a doofus once cut one down and took to his lab to study and discovered that it was over 5000 years old and that he had killed the oldest living thing on the face of the earth.