Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 03, 2016

what a fashionista Ms. Paquin is

And hence my decision not to eat Fig Newtons.

Humans also have seven bones in their necks..\\//_

Not all figs require a fig wasp for fruit development.

Oh, wow. A mouse which is a vertebrate with a spinal cord has the same number of bones in their neck as a giraffe which is also a vertebrate with a spinal cord?! Holy crappola! Here’s a news flash, Ripley’s: Us human beings ALSO have the same number of bones in our neck as mice and giraffes! As far as I know, every spinal cord mammals have the same number of neck bones.

I have a book that shows ink-blot diagrams of well used road kills for use in identifying what the animal is (was). They are all different and generally quite distinct.

C’mon Darryl & Darryl! Let’s go out to the freeway & see what the critter-of-the-day is!

I think the whole point of the mouse/giraffe comparison is the extremes in neck length yet the common number of vertebrae.

Being somewhere in the middle, we are not an oversight, merely not relevant to the context (along with hundreds of other vertebrate species in that middle ground).

Do we really need to have our egos massaged by being mentioned in every comparison?

I guess PETA must be “fur-ious” at Pamela P. ;p

I just gave up ever eating a fig. How do figs digest wasps?