Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 25, 2011
September 24, 2011
September 26, 2011
Transcript:
Italy is the only country with two independent countries wholly located within it- Vatican City and San Marino! King of the mountain! Since 1989, 51-year-old Nepali climber Ada Sherpa has reached the summit of Mount Everest 21 times! Female Blanket octopuses have long transparent webs between their tentacles, making themselves appear larger to startle predators!
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Puddleglum2 about 13 years ago
From my perspective, the KIng of the Mountain is a glutton for punishment!
Jogger2 about 13 years ago
Technically, an octopus has 8 arms, and no tentacles.
John W Kennedy Premium Member about 13 years ago
Actually, many authorities recognize a third state embedded in Italy, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, which occupies the ground floor of one building in Rome.
Artie Adams about 13 years ago
The blanket octopus is easily the coolest animal ever evolved. It’s the Amazon of the sea. Not only the female is about seventy times the size of the male, but she’ll even rip the tentacles off of Portugese Man O’Wars and attack fish with them. That’s the animal kingdom’s equivalent of some fat trailer chick on COPS who lives with a 75-pound crackhead boyfriend running at the officer and trying to beat him with a turkey drumstick. How can you not love that?
iced tea about 13 years ago
Did the King of the Mountain make friends with Yeti?
Koolfunkygrrl about 13 years ago
and I love my calamari deep fried with Thai sauce…yummm…..
natureboyfig4 Premium Member about 13 years ago
Don’t a lot of those Indian gambling places in the American West technically count as their own countries, too?
milegrin over 11 years ago
South Africa contains Swaziland and Lesotho who are also independent countries/kingdoms