Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 29, 2023

The 7% who believe they could out fight a bear, would also first say “hold my beer.”

I can you for a fact, I only know black bears. They look cuddly on all 4’s, Don’t P them off because when they stand…they are giants!

Im in the camp of seeing Grizzlies from inside a tank through a drone hovering 10,000 feet in the air.

I am smarter than my two older sisters, both of whom are of average intelligence. I was tested at a near-genius IQ as a kid. I taught myself to read at age 3. I was reading at a college level by 3rd grade, and was clocked at 1,300 words per minute reading speed, with 90% comprehension (the average adult reads at 250 wpm) as a teenager. I read Alex Haley’s “Roots” in 2 nights when I was 14.

None of those 7% who believe they could defeat a bear were first borns.

Donated all his profits? How un-capitalist of him! Today’s “patriots” could take a lesson from him.

My money’s on the grizzly.

Remember those that paid … So we may play :-)

explains the death rate in grizzly confrontations.

I am certain the mittens were well received and often used for kindling. ~ General Nancy Nuisance, wannabe Redcoat

May the horde be with you, as they are with she, and gesundheit.

Did you also know that more than 7% US adults are very STUPID!

I would be that all 7% are republicans and trump supporters.

Well, a Panda maybe (not Kung Fu Panda, obviously ☺)

What percentage think they can pet Moose or Bison?

I would have given this RBION a like for the information, but I found the bottom illustration to be in extremely poor taste, and therefore did not.

well, of COURSE they could kick a bear’s @ss

after all, didn’t Davy Crockett kill him a b’ar when he was only 3?

I wish those 7% that think they could beat a Grizzly in hand to paw combat ……. would do it …….. would certainly thin out some of the foolish ones …… :)

George Santos beat bears, while drenched in honey, hands tied behind his back with his eyes closed

And 7% of Americans also have a drug or alcohol addiction…

Who doesn’t like bare wrestling.

When the troops were done with the revolution, those mittens came in really handy for snowball fights

and the other 93%?

That 7% helps explain why people are doing all the mass shootings. I wonder if anyone has tried to research a correlation between these shooters and if they received covid shots?

Thomas Paine had a lot of common sense.

Based upon my own observations, both anecdotally and through research, it is very rare for someone with a high IQ to have accomplished anything significant, other than be able to take tests (and maybe earn various college degrees). Marilyn vos Savant, supposedly the person with the highest IQ ever tested, has accomplished nothing more than have a column written in Parade Magazine, where ANYONE with an average IQ could put together, by just doing a little research. She also tried to impress people with her math skills. Sadly, even though IQ supposedly tests for logical/math skills (along with memory capability), various mathematicians have shown that she actually has a terrible understanding of various math principles.

The people who have done the majority of contributions to mankind probably had somewhat higher than average IQs. However, they were polymaths, who developed knowledge in numerous areas of study, and found ways to integrate/synergize all that information, to come up with new ideas and inventions.

Next time you hear somebody brag about their IQ, ask them what they have done to contribute to society with their gift. If most of us did this regularly, we would shut these braggarts up, and maybe get them to realize that high IQs is not much better than being a good calculator, something everyone already has on their computer.

I have a feeling that isn’t true for me and my brother. At least he did better in school than I ever did. He did start out with some struggles but then improved and graduated high school with honors. Me? I was in panic mode after senior finals. You had to get at least a 50 on your non-regents finals or you didn’t graduate even if your class average was 100. When I took my accounting exam I thought there was no way I got a 50. Problem was that I was getting sick and couldn’t think straight. I barely made it. I got a 58. Ironically, that was a little better than my US Govt exam and I hadn’t been sick for that one. And apparently the sicker I was the smarter I was. Totally miserable for my Social science exam and got an 80.

Anyhooie, to be honest, I never even knew my IQ score. So if I did better than my brother on an IQ test, I don’t know. But if I did, it didn’t help much.

Wonder how many of that 7 percent would win? Its less than 1 percent I suspect

That’s me in the back picking my nose!

“Around 796”? Sounds like an exact number to me. Maybe “around 800”. And why is the exact number never known?

My eldest sibling, a sister, is indeed the strongest intellect in the family.

I wonder how many of the 7% lived to tell the tale?

That’s because they think of grizzlys as domesticated animals who are used to people.

Ask the same question with polar bears