Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 08, 2014
July 07, 2014
July 09, 2014
Transcript:
India qualified for the 1950 soccer World Cup but refused to appear because the organizers would not let them play barefoot. Far out! In 1998, two toadfish were flown into orbit on the Space Shuttle to study the effects of zero gravity on balance- their ear canals are remarkably similar to those of humans. The famous psychologist Sigmund Freud suffered from Siderodromophobia- an irrational fear of trains.
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Wouldn’t an “irrational fear” be one of something to which there is no danger? There is a danger involved in trains (not that I have a phobia of trains).