Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 04, 2019

Why would I find platypuses swimming with eyes closed unbelievable? Don’t most warm-blooded animals do the same? (Well, there are whales, dolphins, and porpoises who swim with their eyes open, but they aren’t amphibious, warm-blooded animals.)

Hey! Watch where you’re going! What do you think you are, a mishmash oddity of nature?

A more interesting fact about the platypus….

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The platypus is one of the few mammals to produce venom. Males have a pair of spurs on their hind limbs which secrete venom that is only seasonally active to breeding season, supporting the theory that the use of venom is for competition of mates only, not protection. While the spur remains available for defense outside of breeding season, the platypus’s venom gland lacks secretion. If a human is spurred, the pain of the venom is said to be excruciating but not fatal.

what do you do with a boa that’s a mile long?

Did they have “Red Red Wine” playing on loop at the fountain?

Pride? Were they celebrating a group of lions?

For those able to see the Sunday latest tweet below:

There also seem to be some drivers that seem to think that blowing their magic horn will miraculously cause the light to change quicker.

The months of our lives that we spend waiting at traffic lights is probably similar to the months of our lives we spend on the toilet. But neither is anywhere near the years of our lives that we spend asleep.

I once read, “That was so gay it could be seen from space.” It wasn’t about the boa, but it could be.

More about that glorious red wine fountain:

https://www.decanter.com/wine-news/24-hour-red-wine-fountain-opens-italy-335190/

And the red wine fountain was plumbed with water…

Red red wine stay close to me

Interesting fact of the day: Since 2016 not a single person in Abruzzo, Italy has held a job…