Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 19, 2016
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Transcript:
A sunflower moves its face by growing only on the east facing side of its stem during the day and the west side during the night. Jorn Utzon, the architect who designed the Sydney Opera House in Australia, was not invited to the building's opening. Vegas Vic, on Las Vegas's Fremont Street, is the largest mechanical neon sign in the world.
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Templo S.U.D. about 8 years ago
Why wasn’t Jørn invited to the opening of his masterpiece? Also, how long has Vic been in Vegas?
tom_wright about 8 years ago
Poor JØrn, but he did get to go to the Tupperware construction fund-raiser.
slsl about 8 years ago
Plants face the sun all day long because the cells multiply(grow) on the shady side of the stem, thus they turn the head with the sun. The sun actually inhibits growth on the side it is shining on. You have it wrong in the cartoon.
HectorPriam about 8 years ago
Little known movie trivia!
In the 1973 movie The Exorcist Linda Blair ate 3 packages of sunflower seeds to prepare for the scene where her head swiveled 360 degrees.
gray-beard about 8 years ago
Interestingly, the opera house was not built to plan. It was designed to look like a cluster of clam shells but the contractor stood the shells on end to make them look like sails.
themom51 about 8 years ago
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/05/488891151/the-mystery-of-why-sunflowers-turn-to-follow-the-sun-solved
Stephen Gilberg about 8 years ago
I think Zippy the Pinhead talked with Vegas Vic.
The Pro from Dover about 8 years ago
Vegas Vic is smoking a cigarette? Horrors! How did the children of the 50’s survive!