Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 26, 2023

As a kid I loved to watch click beatles. Hope I didn’t exhaust them too much :-/

That’s the flower you give to the one you love. If they feel the same way about you, it’ll have a lovely fragrance as far as they’re concerned. They’ll brain you in your sleep with a hammer of course, but still.

May the adored be with you as she is with me. Aaaannndd gesundheit.

The Erfurt latrine disaster occurred July 26, 1184 when Henry VI, King of Germany (later Holy Roman Emperor), held a Hoftag (informal assembly) in the Petersberg Citadel in Erfurt. On the morning of July 26, the combined weight of the assembled nobles caused the wooden second story floor of the building to collapse and most of them fell through into the latrine cesspit below the ground floor, where about 60 of them drowned in liquid excrement. This event is called the Erfurter Latrinensturz (lit. ’Erfurt latrine fall’) in several German sources.

Aw man, I thought I was the state fossil of Colorado…..

Make the Carrion Flower the official state flower of Florida

In Washington the state fossil is from the Pleistocene and is called the Columbian mammoth

Skunk cabbage also has a fly-attracting scent, because at the season of its blooming, flies are the only reliably-available pollinator.

about the Stegosaurus one—

So?

Interesting. So that is what we have in our basement!