Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 21, 2014
Transcript:
A pigeon can accelerate from a standstill to 60 mph in less than two seconds- that's faster than a Ferrari! Singapore banned long hair on men in the 1970s. Bojana Danilovic, from Siberia, sees everything- TV, books, computers- upside down due to a rare brain condition.
Simon_Jester about 10 years ago
I can see it now…“Introducing for 2015, the new Lamborghini Piccione.”
Templo S.U.D. about 10 years ago
Hey, ’tater, beat you to it! Singapore sure bans the oddest things… they currently ban chewing gum from being imported.
Kerovan about 10 years ago
If you are born with a condition like that, it seems natural. You can learn to read differently yourself though. My Dad could read mirror text just as fast as the original, all because he learned to proofread articles for the newspapers back in the day. Hot Lead printing type is backward so that it prints forward on the paper.
I remember once reading about a certain type of blindness they found a cure for. People born with that condition could suddenly see after treatment, but they had never learned how to see growing up. They didn’t understand the visual cues for telling distance for example. Most of them went back to acting as if blind because of that.
James Hopkins about 10 years ago
I wonder if Bojana has a special reflector for driving or if she can drive at all?
tuslog64 about 10 years ago
Until a few years ago Missouri required the placement of planks on a bridge floor before crossing with a tractor.(Went back to when tractors had steel lug wheels)They also only recently took a law off the books stating it was legal to shoot an LDS member!
english.ann about 10 years ago
It must have taken Bojana a lot of time to learn to walk as well as she does. Some of those tools, like the keyboard, were probably specially designed for her.
Marvin3 about 10 years ago
Pigeons are delicious. Especially the ones that dwell in parks. They are fed choice feeds like, corn, bread crumbs, peanuts, and Cracker Jacks. Nice, fat, yummy pigeons. Gourmet’s call the delicacy squab. The drum sticks don’t amount to much, but the the rest like I said – yummy.
tlynnch about 10 years ago
Hmm sees everything upside down? Really. According to this research our brain quickly adjusts:http://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/nov/12/improbable-research-seeing-upside-down
MetalOverCountry about 10 years ago
Long hair can be filthy.