Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 28, 2023

I live in Ocklawaha. Everybody corrects my pronunciation when I tell them, YET no 2 corrects have ever been the same? When they get done I’m not sure where I live

Wow! I never knew that mosquitoes are attracted to the human scent.

I need more bats! They eat mosquitoes!

Long ago I read that mosquitoes (and deer flies) are attracted to dark colored clothing, especially blue clothing. My experience seems to verify this. I haven’t owned blue clothing in years, not even blue jeans.

Hey! That’s what my girlfriend named my… oh, never mind. ~ Big John Holmes, gone but not forgotten

May the gourd be with you, as it is with tea, and gesundheit.

I hate mosquitoes.

How often do parrotfish change their bed sheets? Or are their bed sheets rubber?

The Lond Ranger was going to name his great white steed that name…but Tonto toldhim…..”Just call him Silver.”

So that’s where Baron Munchausen got the name Bucephalus for his horse…

so where is/was the city of Bucephalus?

i make my pajamas out of mucus too!

I heard mosquitos can also detect carbon dioxide, since breathing organisms produce them

We should ban Fairy Bread before it makes it to the U.S.A.

Fairy bread is sliced white bread spread with butter or margarine and covered with “Hundreds and Thousands”,(sprinkles) often served at children’s parties in Australia and New Zealand. It is typically cut into triangles.

HistoryAlthough people had been putting hundred and thousands (or nonpareils) on bread and butter for some time, the first known reference to this dish as Fairy Bread was in the Hobart Mercury in April 1929. Referring to a party for child inmates of the Consumptive (TB) Sanitorium, the article proclaimed that “The children will start their party with fairy bread and butter and 100s and 1,000s, and cakes, tarts, and home-made cakes…”

The origin of the term is not known, but it may come from the poem ‘Fairy Bread’ in Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses published in 1885, and had been used for a number of different food items before the current usage.

In April 2021, the satirical group The Chaser created a fabricated online petition calling for the renaming of fairy bread, calling it “offensive”, which resulted in many mainstream news stories.

In November 2021, a Google Doodle was created to celebrate fairy bread.

Stolen from Wikipedia and information from my wife’s cousin who lived in Melbourne for a decade or two.

I must have the world’s most desirable human sweat, from a mosquito’s perspective

You can’t believe everything on RBION. Actually, mozzies find a host by following the carbon dioxide trail from our and other mammals breath. RBION is not claiming believe it or not it’s true.

Fairy bread makes the Fluffernutter seam utterly and completely OK.

They’re 100s and 1000s not sprinkles