Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 18, 2014
Transcript:
In July 2014, Japanese artist Azuma Makoto sent a bonsai tree to the edge of space attached to a weather balloon. The Gardener's frog, which has no middle ear and was thought to be deaf, is able to hear sound through its mouth. Hurricane Isaac cause the Mississippi River to flow backwards for 24 hours in August 2012.
Japanese artists must be goofier than American artists!