Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 14, 2012
May 13, 2012
May 15, 2012
Transcript:
Have shovel... Will travel! Angel Fire, NM, USA, is home to an annual downhill shovel racing competition! Whew! Believe it or not! A queen termite will lay an egg every 3 seconds for more than a decade! Kodokushi! Japanese for lonely deaths, refers to an increasingly common occurrence in Japan of dead bodies being discovered in homes after going unnoticed for months or years!
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Michael Thorton over 12 years ago
And many times in the early days of her nest, the termite queen will be forced to eat some of those eggs and feed more of them to the ones that hatched into larvae.
chaosed2 over 12 years ago
When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather….not screaming and hollering like his passengers.
zoidknight over 12 years ago
Neither did most of our politicians.
walruscarver2000 over 12 years ago
And you thought your job was boring.
Stephen Gilberg over 12 years ago
Dear John Graziano: Please do not write “Believe it or not” a second time in a strip.
Puddleglum2 over 12 years ago
‘The body of evidence’ is incontrovertible!
xall2h1 over 12 years ago
that is millions of eggs just for a quater of a decade
Yukoneric over 12 years ago
Skied Angel Fire before there were shovels……
tuslog64 over 12 years ago
Anyone tried splicing some termite DNA into chickens? Oops – they’d probably just eat the hen house down!