Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 20, 2018

When the unibrow gene was in its heyday.

Did George Herman’s cabbage leaf last all nine innings?

When you consider all the heat within the entire iceberg it has much more heat than one lit match. Your body probably contains more heat than one lit match.

I prefer the story of Babe Ruth visiting an injured boy in the hospital, and promising to hit a homer just for him—which he did.

I prefer the story of Jackie Mitchell, the 17-year-old girl who struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.

Just try to get an appointment at a wooly mammoth barber. Boy, are they ever booked!

I wouldn’t want to clean the trap after the mammoth took a shower?

So today we have 3 facts, Mammoth Cabbage, Iceberg Lettuce, and a Cabbage head baseball player…time for me to take a leaf of absence from here.

I’m just glad Babe Ruth was not told that lasagna could keep his head cool.

The Babe – sportin’ the first Anglo doo-rag…

Heat is the energy created by matter in motion and can be transferred from hotter matter to colder matter. The warmer water transfers heat to the colder air to make ice. Temperature is a measurement of how much heat is in matter.

Babe Ruth: the original Cabbage Patch Kid!

Comparing the heat in an iceberg to that in a lit match is slightly confusing. The heat in an iceberg is thermal energy, as is the heat in a unlit match. But, a lit match is obtaining additional energy from the chemical reactions of combustion. That is, chemical bonding energy is being released as thermal energy.

The comparison seems surprising because the temperature of the flame of a lit match (hot!) is much higher than the temperature of an iceberg. But, temperature is not the same as heat.