Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 29, 2020

Many fruits and vegetables are man-made hybrids.

https://factspedia.org/fruits-and-veggies-you-wont-believe-are-man-made/

Eat natural, not artificial!

From Wikipedia: Aphonopelma johnnycashi is a species of tarantula (family Theraphosidae). It was found in 2015 near Folsom Prison in California, and named after Johnny Cash, whose song, “Folsom Prison Blues”, made it famous. Mature males are generally black, and the country music singer was also known as “The Man in Black”.

I think I’ve heard of that johnnycashi thing in GWR.

Hang on a sec… where’s Jason?

Maybe it’s just me, but I would take naming a species of tarantula after me as an insult.

I assume the tarantula is black after The Man In Black.

Whomever invented broccoli should dis-invent it.

Forest would have been an even 19 feet tall, but his parents could never get him to “stand up straight”, or eat his broccoli, for that matter.

I wonder why they pictured the person standing on a mound of dirt next to the giraffe?

looks like the zoo keeper stepped in it this time……

Broccoli is a man made food. It was bred from wild cabbage.

Broccoli is actually a cabbage. Broccoli is a human invention. It was bred out of the wild cabbage plant, Brassica oleracea . It was cultivated to have a specific taste and flavor that was more palatable to people.

Where’s Forrest when I can’t see the trees from the forest?

Run, Forest, run!

And here I thought it would be ‘The Man in Black Widow’…

If you bring Forest indoors will he bump his head on the giraffters?

on this day in history on September 29th 1789 Congress votes to create a U.S. army

My brother Johnny paid cash for a tarantula.

‘Grow, Forest, Grow!’

Broccoli is as “man-made” as any other hybrid foods we eat, animal, veggie or mineral.

I hurt my tarantula today to see if it still feels…

“Broccoli is a man-made food”? So is every other plant that man has bred to produce more of a particular trait.

that broccoli thing isn’t even a weird fact, ALL grown crops are man made food, almost nothing that we farm resembles their wild relatives. If you wanted to make it interesting you could have pointed out how it’s derived from mustard, along with at least half a dozen other vegetables.

The only place the tarantula can be found is in Folsum Prison…

Does that mean spider in black?

Too bad Forest can’t help with rescues.

cos cash is a creepy thang

Well, broccoli is man-made, anyway.