Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 12, 2023

Today’s RBorN Bugs me!

One time I was seven inches tall.

So what did the fungus eat before the Chernobyl accident?

Starbucks is really a restaurant not a store; but there are restaurants that have gift shops inside them so they’re both; and if I wanted to go to Starbucks, I wouldn’t need to go all the way to China; but it’s still interesting.

May the Lord be with you as He is with me.

There are actually a few species of frogs still extant today which can get larger than the average devil frog, and most of them will feed on small reptiles if they have the chance.

A fungus that eats radiation sounds like the beginning of a movie made for the SyFy network.

I had never heard of winged ants. If they can fly, then maybe the Queen wants to establish a new ant colony.

Maybe a radiation eating fungus could thrive on Mars and help protect human explorers there.

I remember the story about the wide-mouthed frog.

One cannot eat radiation. You can eat radioactive material though. Radiation is the particles and energy released from a radioactive substance upon its decay. I used to teach the difference between radiation and radioactive contamination using the cow pasture analogy. You smell the cow poop, that’s the radiation. You step in the cow pie and now you are contaminated with radioactive material. You can eat the cow pie just as you can eat radioactive materials but I don’t recommend it!

There’s a fungus among-us. Well, somebody had to say it.

Larger dinosaurs ate devil frogs. Now I’m hungry for deviled eggs.

“I’ll have a large Communist Totalitarian Latte with extra Excuses please.”

Take care, may cooking wine enthusiast Mable “Flying Aunt” McVermouthord be with you, and gesundheit.

I wonder what kind of trip you get on mutated Amanitas… Not sure there are any in Chernobyl.

Re the Starbucks on the Great Wall of China: how crass can you get??!!

Imagine Indiana Jones fighting off flying fire ants.

That China Starbucks would have the longest outdoor Cafe ever, with a nice view. Should release some big BALLOONS to celebrate.

Since the atomic bomb testing has increased everything’s radiation levels that fungus may conquer the world.

what does “eats radiation” mean? Does that mean it absorbs the radioactive particles, merely tolerates radioactive versions of elements that all living things use, or does it actually gain energy from radioactivity like some weird version of photosynthesis?

I’m thinking that fungus evolved at Chernobyl because a new food supply became available there

How’a that Chinese Starbucks coming along? Business booming?

That fungus does nothing to diminish the radiation. In fact, it may concentrate it.

Add some golden arches and you got the great mall of China

Dozens of flying ants would end up in my pool about early Summer.

How will the fungus manage after a few million years?

Yes, but is there a Subway sandwich shop on the Great Wall of China?

What do you call religious mushrooms?

Fungumentalists!!

In 2006,stomach ailments in China increased 30%