Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 11, 2020

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    Leroy  over 4 years ago

    Okay, now we know why there is no such thing as a raccoon salad sandwich.

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    meg_grif  over 4 years ago

    As God as my witness, I thought marshmallows could fly.

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    Bilan  over 4 years ago

    So that pilot is Peeping on children? Sounds illegal.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 4 years ago

    Is that Florida Easter tradition going to happen in Easter 2020? It’s already one day to Easter.

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    sevaar777  over 4 years ago

    Perhaps that helicopter could drop a few face masks at the beaches and churches their killer clown governor decided to keep open. But that would be a waste as the Floridean beach goers would used them as makeshift swimwear, and churches would burn them as heresy against JAY-SUS.

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    A Common 'tator  over 4 years ago

    Okay… Chocolate rabbits and chocolate eggs are traditionally eaten at this time as a reminder of rebirth (The Resurrection)… Marshmallows as a reminder of…….?

    Incidentally, those marshmallows are wrapped in cellophane or something… or just dropped loose on the ground?

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    Grumpy Old Guy  over 4 years ago

    Viruses can be transmitted to humans by eating “weird” animals.

    Good move on Coolidge’s part….

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    jimmjonzz Premium Member over 4 years ago

    The existence of such long-tongued moths was predicted in 1862, but was first confirmed over forty years later by a specimen collected in Madagascar in 1903.

    How was it predicted? It’s existence was deduced by the fact that certain tropical orchids have their pollen-bearing organs at the bottom of a very long (and extremely narrow) fluted blossom. Only a moth with such a proboscis could serve as the pollinator of such flowers.

    But even after the collection of the Madagascar specimen, no one had observed the actual pollination event. That’s at least partly because it takes place in the dead of night in dense jungles. It was over a hundred and fifty years before the theory was proved by filming the event with motion-activated movie cameras, with night-photographuc capabilities.

    Since then, a few other species of moth have been found with such huge probosces, all of them in the Hawk Moth family .

    Who made the original prediction?

    Charles Darwin, in a book about orchids.

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    jimmjonzz Premium Member over 4 years ago

    On dropping stuff from the sky to eager crowds below….

    At the height of the Cabbage Patch Kids craze of 1983, Christmas shoppers were said to be fighting in toy aisles to purchase the scarce dolls.

    A Wisconsin radio announcer joked that a B-29 bomber would drop 2,000 Cabbage Patch Kids into Milwaukee County Stadium. People should bring catcher’s mitts, and whoever grabbed a doll needed to hold up their credit card to be photographed.

    The hoax was repeated elsewhere. In Atlanta, for example, the dolls would be dropped from a helicopter over a Little League baseball field. Only those who held up their credit cards to be photographed would have a doll thrown directly to them !

    I especially love the detail about the catcher’s mitt. I suspect some people had to go out and buy a mitt in order to participate.

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    therese_callahan2002  over 4 years ago

    Years later, Rebecca met her grandson, Rocket.

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    cupertino jay  over 4 years ago

    >rocky

    yeahbut what was cal’s turkey’s name?

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    jpayne4040  over 4 years ago

    I’m sure Mr. Coolidge did not like the taste of raccoon! I would not try one unless it was the only food left!

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    dwindy54  over 4 years ago

    My mother made raccoon. She’d put it in a pressure cooker along with lots of veggies and cook for many hours at low temp. It was delicious. She did bear the same way.

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    jvn  over 4 years ago

    Someone sent the President a raccoon for Thanksgiving dinner? WT-actual-F?

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    dv1093  over 4 years ago

    This year the marshmallow drop was dropped.

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    kvnkoehler  over 4 years ago

    A racoon for Easter Dinner? WTH?

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    Al Fresco, the Librarian  over 4 years ago

    Raccoon for dinner? Cal was speechless.

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    Pickled Pete  over 4 years ago

    Raccoons are thieves. . . there is a big one in the WH again, a whole family and friends of them.

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    sparkle 13 Premium Member over 4 years ago

    The hawk moth must come from the Gene Simmons branch !!! Lol

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    yangeldf  over 4 years ago

    people eat raccoons on thanksgiving?

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    paranormal  over 4 years ago

    The marshmallow drop ended when the one giant marshmallow crushed a child.

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    LV1951  over 4 years ago

    Bet no drop this year!

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    Stephen Gilberg  over 4 years ago

    Many presidents had unorthodox pets, tho it has been many decades.

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    Malcome1  over 4 years ago

    Marshmallow drops are common at small community summer festivals. They replaced ping pong balls in the 70s or 80s for safety reasons after a few eyes were put out. I don’t know what’s so BION about this.

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    ScottHolman  over 4 years ago

    What’s fun is to mix in a few hundred heavy ball bearings when you do the drop. It really gets people screaming.

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    craigwestlake  over 4 years ago

    What a marvelous idea. Thousands of marshmallows lying upon the clean ground for the children…

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