Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 11, 2024

Tie me Kangaroo down!

All three have Australia in common. (Look up the lowest scoring breakdancer at the Olympics)

Put another shrimp on the barbie ?

Billy Gibson and Dusty Hill of the band, ZZ Top, both had beards, the third member of the band was Frank Beard who did not have a beard.

I am not sure where RBION gets their information about kangaroos killing people in Australia, but this site claims there has only been two people killed by kangaroos in the last 100 years.

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List of fatal shark attacks in Australia according to Wikipedia.

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Only around 6 people are killed by sharks each year, worldwide. Deadliest non-human mammal to people is rabid dogs, killing 25,000 per year.

More people are killed by kangaroos in Australia than any other country.

In Nebraska, are more people killed by kangaroos than by sharks?

So ’roo burgers are not an option?

She has just been declared the Number 1 female break dancer by some break dancing committee. Australian breaker Rachael Gunn, the Olympian widely known as B-Girl Raygun who went viral after her performance at the Paris Games, is now ranked the No. 1 breaker in the world.The 37-year-old claimed the top spot in the latest women’s rankings released by the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) – the governing body of breaking and other dance sports.None of the Olympic winners were ranked.

What about koalas? Those furballs are surprisingly vicious!

How many sharks were killed by kangaroos?

Maybe if they were land sharks … No!

Land sharks are lawyers. More people are killed by kangaroos than their lawyers.

Maybe break dancing won’t be back because it was highly ridiculed and they’ll try something else in 2028

As to the Olympic breakdancing event, them’s the breaks! ;-p

I’m more interested in the number of fatalities in crocodile attacks. That’s something I can really sink my teeth into. ;-p

The dingo ate my baby!

In America, more people are killed by Fords than kangaroos.

I find this one hard to swallow(no pun intended) because the Great Barrier Reef is prime “Great White” territory

I saw some of the breakdancing on tv for this Olympic games. It was really fascinating. Sorry to hear they are dropping it.

Because its just silly

candy gram

land shark

The first panel heavily implies that her performance caused breakdancing to be dropped from the Olympics. It was never going to appear in the LA Olympics. That said, breakdancing is just as valid an event as anything else.

Hmm maybe it’s more about when: There are sites that confirm that from 2001-2017 Kanga Kills 37 vs Sharks 27