Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 05, 2011
June 04, 2011
June 06, 2011
Transcript:
Damage to the broca's area of the brain can leave a person with the ability to understand language, but an inability to speak it! The Fork-Tailed Drongo- a species of South American bird, protects several unrelated species of animals by acting as a predator alarm system! The whistling language of Silbo Gomero has only four vowels and four consonants, and its speakers can easily converse while standing two miles apart!
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Yukoneric almost 13 years ago
A friend and I used to yell while we stood in our farm yards. Sound traveled well enough we didn’t need the phone. In those days everything had to go through an operator. Loved the Fifties……..
muhammad shafiul haque almost 13 years ago
where are the old editions
Kiba65 almost 13 years ago
Larger today without the magnifier, maybe the read the comments at gocomics???
Buggerlugs almost 13 years ago
Where is a good place to find Sherman’s Lagoon? I love that comic.
Buggerlugs almost 13 years ago
When I was a kid we talked using two cans and a string (not a wire). The main problem was that the string had to remain taut at all times for it to work. Talking through a garden hose worked much better.
Frogman_tg almost 13 years ago
@buggerlugshttp://www.seattlepi.com/comics-and-games/fun/Shermans_Lagoon/
hossblacksilver almost 13 years ago
At the science museum here in Charlotte (Discovery Place) they have (had?) a pair of huge parabolic dishes that if you spoke into one, the sound would travel over a distance to the other one where some listening in could hear it.
Petemejia77 about 12 years ago
My dad would have this Cuban whistle whenever he was trying yo find me, my sister or my mom at stores. Found out later almost every Cuban father had his own special note! Otherwise, chaos would insude in South Florida!