Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 13, 2019

Don’t we mean the SPIRE of the E.S.B. if built on the Dead Sea’s shore?

Hooch: fermented and distilled seal berries?

Don’t give the belly-button a fancy name because then everybody will want one!

I began thinking about the word umbilicus many years ago, but thought it was just something I made up.

Hooch! Hic!

I suspect it’s “scientific” name is merely what the Romans called it.

Yeah. Well I don’t care if umpires have their own building, I still don’t trust them. lol, lmao, yuck-yuck, etc..

Wouldn’t the water of the Dead Sea be sea sea level ?

Yes I know it is actually a lake, I was just having fun with the common English name for the location.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Dead-Sea

Dead Sea, Arabic Al-Baḥr Al-Mayyit (“Sea of Death”), Hebrew Yam HaMelaẖ (“Salt Sea”), also called Salt Sea, landlocked salt lake between Israel and Jordan …

Is the lint in a belly button called “Umbilicus Fillitupicas”?

Dept. of Nobody Asked: Umbigo is Belly Button in Portuguese.

Is that scientist showing us his belly button lint?

“Who got the hooch?” They did.

The term ‘Hooch’ comes from Kentucky.

The anatomy book is full of 10,000 “scientific” names of all body parts. Do they really want to drop all these names over time? For me it seems to be a way to cover their lazyness to find really interesting stories. This scientific name thing makes no sense and never did. Moreover, it is totally boring. BTW, umbilicus is the simple word for the navel in latin, 2000 years ago ordinary people used it. And they had names for the ears, the eyes, the hands, the legs, the nose etc.

Seriously? Ripley’s is posting that about the belly button? I thought this was supposed to be about things that should amaze. Every part of the body has a biological name for crying out loud! And hellooooooooo…..the cord the doctor cuts is called the UMBILICAL cord which comes right out of your belly button so why is the fact that it’s called the umbilicus such a surprise? Here’s some other scientific names: your big toe is the hallux or Great Toe (don’t call it the big toe on an anatomy test. It’ll be wrong). Your kneecap is your patella. Your windpipe is your trachea.

He was very important in Roman history, as were Gluteous and Maximus…

I thought hooch was a prison brew made from organic (usually fruit) materials. What plant would the eskimoes be using?