Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 18, 2020

We got Frenjamin Banklin.

May the Lord be with you.

A group of owls is called a flock: I don’t want to have to remember group names, especially owls, when I’ve never seen more than one at a time.

Mars sunset.

https://www.universetoday.com/120353/what-makes-mars-sunsets-different-from-earths/

What was Franklin even doing with (as Jason Snake Lover would’ve done it) 1,201 bones?

I wonder what color are the sunrises/-sets of Mercury are like.

The “terms of venery” were the words used for certain groupings. Originally they referred mostly to game animals and birds, including edible fish.

It was all fanciful, a sort of name game for, um, naming game. The fun eventually extended to groups of people… beggars, judges, merchants, etc. And even to different types of animal droppings.

But again, it was mostly a glossary of fun rather than function.

Almost all are obsolete today, though a few persist. A gaggle of geese, right? But you are more likely to encounter them in crossword puzzles than in the real world.

I have to admit, I do like “an exaltation of larks” which is the title of one published list of the terms.

The barrel eye fish are very weird looking. Their eyes are actually inside their heads! (See YouTube!)

The eyes also have a broad range of movement. They can shift from looking ahead to looking straight up to looking to either side without having to move their bodies. Or their necks, which is handy because they don’t have necks.

The evolutionary advantage is that they can see prey or predators swimming beside them, above them, below them… all at the same time.

1200 Bones = at least 6 people, minimum.

So, it true. There is a parliament that’s wise.

My personal parliament of owls consists of stuffed ones, plastic ones, wooden ones, metal ones, and even ceramic ones.

Well, it’s not that deep blue.

I dunno about ya owl, but I never knew this one.

So…is a group in parliament called “owls”?

And what are owl the people inside a parliament called?

Benjackmin “The Ripper” Franklin????? :D

Ben was known to eat BBQ at the Grand Central Cafe in Texas.

https://austin.eater.com/2019/10/25/20930935/texas-chainsaw-massacre-gas-station-restaurants-barbecue-where-to-find-them

Was Ben Franklin a serial killer?

Well, Ben, we do feel disappointed in you once again.

Take care, may the Ford be with you, and gesundheit.

Was he a serial killer or just a big eater?

And probably a lot wiser than our congress!

The red planet has blue sunrise and sunsets, pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, and green clovers.

Franklin threw some wild parties in London.

When asked about Brexit the UK’s parliament answers ’Who?"

Deep Sea Barrel eye fish are the mascot of the tRump Administration.

And according to QAnon, Nancy Pelosi inherited that basement.

BF must have been a cannibal he hated the Brits so much

So the UK is a bunch of owls?

The question is, wouldn’t a perfectly transparent eye be blind? I mean, we see because our sensitive cells intercept photons, right? But perfectly transparent would be defined by not affecting photons. So, deep-sea barreleye fish must not be deep-see. See?

I have to say, that barreleye illustration is unimpressive. Doesn’t look transparent at all.

whose bones were they? Ben Franklin was a cannibal?

Historians now have a clearer idea of the cause of Ben’s portliness…

It’s an evolutionary adaptation for Barreleye fish that transport tourists on dive tours…

Most likely the bones in Ben’s basement were from dissections done by a friend of his. "The most plausible explanation is not mass murder, but an anatomy school run by Benjamin Franklin’s young friend and protege, William Hewson. He had been a pupil of the most brilliant anatomist of the day, William Hunter, but the two fell out and Hewson started his own anatomy school – at the home of his mother-in-law Margaret Stephenson, just off the Strand, where Benjamin Franklin was also a lodger for 16 years. " — the Guardian 11 Aug 2003https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/11/usa.past