Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 20, 2006
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Retail shop space in the Ben Thanh market of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, costs $178,000 per 10 square feet (1 sq m)! 1 + 2 + 3 + 4... +100 = 5,050 added in 10 seconds Besides it being 100 numbers to add individually, it's also 50 pairs of numbers that add up to 101 (1 + 100, 2 + 99... 50 + 51) Rather than adding them all separately- you can simply multiply 50 x 101. In 1912, the British Board of Film Sensors had rules against portraying unhappy workers!