Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 22, 2014
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Transcript:
Ripley's Believe It or Not! TAKE THAT! The leopard sea slug attacks predators by squirting its sticky toxic guts out through its butt -- and the guts regrow a few days later! King of the hill! The Himalayan jumping spider lives at 22,000 feet up on Mount Everest, and preys on insects carried up on the wind. It can also leap 30 times its own length. In 1938, Henry Helf of the Cleveland Indians caught a baseball that was dropped 708 feet -- and thought to be traveling at 138 mph -- from the top of Cleveland's terminal tower.
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phelpsgates over 10 years ago
Note the “weasel words” here: “thought to be traveling at 138 MPH.” Actually, because of air resistance, the terminal velocity of a baseball is nowhere near that. Estimates range from 50 to 95 MPH (the former is that of a “smooth sphere” at sea level, but a baseball is not a smooth sphere).
joe piglet Premium Member over 10 years ago
JUST IN; the Himalayan jumping spider now lives at 10,000 after the land slide.
BearsDown Premium Member over 10 years ago
The spider wears goggles.
2578275 over 10 years ago
@phelpsgatesAnd, of course, “believe it or not.”
Mostly Water Premium Member over 10 years ago
This is my solemn vow that I will never prey on a leopard sea slug.
tototu over 10 years ago
I think my wife morphed into a leopard sea slug.
LV1951 over 10 years ago
Ouch!
Stephen Gilberg over 10 years ago
I think there’s also a fish that does that — with all its guts.