Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 17, 2013

They should have killed her just for the irony of it all.

Wow, talk about an attention-seeking lady…

Wonder if Zeng Jia read Tom Sawyer?

or why we don’t

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and the women in the world are merely players…”

No one knows why we yawn? Hmm…check this out.

I know why we yawn.but I’m not telling

1. They held together through the war, but split after?2. We yawn because we feel like it!3. Do we REALLY want to know what others think of us?

Zeng Jia prob saw “Man on the Moon”!

For a second I thought the German brothers story was gonna be about John Wayne and Henry Kissenger!

Advice to John Graziano: Do not write “BELIEVE IT OR NOT!” a second time within the strip.

Two things were observed about people who yawned in a lab study, carried out in the late 60’s – a) they were physically inactive for an extended period, b) when they yawned, they invariably inhaled deeply. Sensors attached to then revealed their heart rate slowed, and their breathing also slowed, and became more shallow. Two things were tried – when some one felt a yawn coming, they were instructed to preemptively inhale deeply. It usually prevented the yawn, and always minimized it. Additonal deep breaths staved off further yawning, which was deemed to be easier, and less obvious, in class. Subsequent blood analysis revealed it was less a matter of reduced oxygen, and more due to elevated levels of CO2 in the blood. Much later, as the study of the brain revealed more about what actions/reactions/responses were triggered by which part of the brain, the area of the brain that has to do with wakefulness and alertness was found to be particularly sensitive to elevated CO2 levels.

Gosh darn it! That fact made me yawn!