Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 30, 2020

Sanami Masaki must have a lot of time on her hands.

We can forgive Satie’s weird idiosyncrasies because he gave us his haunting and beautiful “Gnossienne No.3”

How many giraffes do three-toed sloths have in their neck?

Sleep with One Eye Open

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8qIseFg77Q

Giraffes have the same number of bones in their necks that we do. (PS – see above…and please don’t feed the troll.)

Never heard of an umbrella collection, not a bad idea, you could hang them all down from the ceiling, would make a charming and unique decor.And sloths have all them neckbones yet they look like they have no neck. Amazing, bizarre, Believe it or Not.

All of that work just to turn around and eat it? Makes me wonder how she gets happiness from it (it’s clear she does or she wouldn’t do it every morning!).

On this day in history on August 30th 1781 The French fleet arrives in the Chesapeake Bay to aid the American Revolution.

Perhaps Erik had a disorder or two. Maybe three.

Take care and gesundheit.

I find it hard to believe “anyone” could “sleep” with one eye open

A characteristic of all mammals is 7 bones in the cervical region; even for whales; good luck finding their necks. The sloth’s extra neck vertebrae are essentially thoracic vertebrae without ribs. You can see something similar in humans occasionally, where cervical vertebrae have ribs.

According to The University of Cambridge: The ‘extra’ vertebrae in sloths’ necks have the same developmental characteristics as thoracic vertebrae. They are, in effect, ribcage vertebrae, masquerading as neck vertebrae. In sloths, the position of the shoulders, pelvis and ribcage are linked with one another, and compared to their common ancestor shared with other mammals, have shifted down the vertebral column to make the neck longer,” explains Asher.

“Even in sloths, the mammalian ‘rule of seven’ applies to the vertebral centra. The ossification of the centra in a long-necked sloth resembles ossification in other mammals. However, sloths can deviate from the “rule” by shifting the embryonic tissues that give rise to the limb girdles and rib cage relative to the vertebrae, adding what are essentially one or more ribcage vertebrae into the caudal end of their neck. The next question to address is why and how sloths managed this shift.”

i honestly sleep with my right eye open and by the time she finishes her toast art, aren’t the eggs cold?

M. Satie definitely had OCD..

I wonder if Erik Satie on Foote’s Legge? ☺

Satie was an influential composer of the early 20th century, much under appreciated by the general public but a huge contributor to the avant-garde in every artistic discipline.

Yeah, I usually don’t eat sloth necks, too many bones.

Sounds like cold toast to me – forget it.

It was built next to the Knee-Thigh-Hip Hotel…

I’m always amused when the barista does all that effort to put a leaf or whatever on my latte, and then immediately covers it up with a take-out lid. Why bother anyway? It doesn’t taste any different with or without the art!