Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 02, 2019

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    pearlsbs  over 5 years ago

    I found one of the paintings with the cat.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 5 years ago

    Is there something special about that century-old tree in a Chinese school football pitch?

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    Gent  over 5 years ago

    Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that the cat was the true mastermind behind the great betrayal. They were furious that nobody followed their ancient Egyptian cat gods anymore (who were actually cat creatures from outer space) and wanted vengeance against the self proclaimed son of god!

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    Breadboard  over 5 years ago

    Is it legal to play the ball off of the tree ? Cats like to eat to ! ….. So the cloud is in Ashburn,does it ever have a cloud burst ?

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    khmo  over 5 years ago

    Glad to see they had the foresight to leave the tree.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  over 5 years ago

    I firmly believe there were mousers in those days.

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    Nighthawks Premium Member over 5 years ago

    excuse my denseness , but about this Ashburn VA. thing, what the heck is being said here?

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    danholt  over 5 years ago

    Ashburn, VA is where ‘the cloud’ is https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cloud-computing-loudoun-county-virginia/

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    retpost  over 5 years ago

    Last I heard they had 10 million square feet of space stacked with computers.

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    joeatwork212  over 5 years ago

    What is the significance of a cat under the table? Was it a bad omen or something along those lines?

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    ncorgbl  over 5 years ago

    25 miles from Langley. Lots of government in the area. I’m Shocked.

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    aedra6  over 5 years ago

    I looked at several depictions of the last supper and couldn’t find any with a cat (I stopped looking after a while) however, I did find several with dogs in the painting. Most don’t have any animals at all.

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    jvn  over 5 years ago

    And they don’t cut down the tree, why? Maybe they enjoy watching watching the kids slamming into it when they don’t pay attention?

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    yangeldf  over 5 years ago

    So that school just very poorly planned their soccer field placement? Or is it over 100 years old and the tree grew there and couldn’t be transplanted because it’s a protected species or something?

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    charliefarmrhere  over 5 years ago

    So Ashburn would be a likely target in the event of war?

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    Spock  over 5 years ago

    Funny. To measure “data space” in “square feet” is quite a surprising thing to do. And the claim about the 70% of the world’s internet traffic going through at Ashburn’s site might have been true 30 years ago. The biggest node in terms of average traffic throughput is actually the “Brazil Internet Exchange”, second place is the DE-CIX with HQ in Frankfurt (“Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange”). The Equinix Exchange, to which the Ashburn node belongs today, is currently number eight in the world. If you look for the country with the most traffic, it is still the USA, having a share of 27% in the world-wide internet data traffic (based on the last 24 hours). The largest single traffic producer is Netflix, producing 13% of global (!) internet traffic alone.

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    craigwestlake  over 5 years ago

    Well, that Ashburn information should make them a prime target for terrorists…

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