Apparently there are 31 Ripley’s Believe It Or Not
“Odditoriums” around the world, where visitors can experience the spectacular
collections of oddities put together by the Ripley’s team, and have your mind
blown.
I suppose you could try and work your way into the Believe It Or Not annual by visiting all 31 of them, but it would be easier to buy the book, then try to wrap your mind around some of the amazing and yes – hard to believe – facts presented for your entertainment. Apparently everything in the book is guaranteed true, and 90% of the weird tales have photographs to back them up.
This glossy 250 page book is definitely for you if you have a taste for the odd, the peculiar, or the downright weird. Here are a few examples:
- The World’s Oldest Cabin – Thomas Boylan of Wyoming, USA, began construction of a cabin in 1915, using only dinosaur bones – apparently 5,796 of them, weighing a hefty 46,342 kilograms. The building was originally promoted as ‘the museum that used to walk”!
-58,000 speeding drivers were caught on temporary cameras in less than two weeks in the Italian village of Acquetico – despite the town having just 120 residents!
-It is illegal to carry live snails on a French high-speed train, unless they have a ticket!
-The only scientific paper ever published by Bill Gates was a possible solution in the early 70’s to a mathematical problem about flipping pancakes
-Lilo and Stitch, a 2002 Disney film, features more Elvis Presley songs than any of Presley’s own films!
And so the facts and figures keep coming at you page after page in this amazing anthology of oddities. It’s worth a read (not to be consumed all at once), then it’s up to you whether you ….. “BELIEVE IT OR NOT”.
Believe It Or Not is published by Penguin RandomHouse. ISBN 978–1–52912–574-0 For more information visit www.ripleys.com/books - Barry Meehan
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