Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 29, 2014
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Transcript:
Muckanaghederdauhaulia is the name of a village Galway, Ireland. It takes 25 painters 18 months to repaint the Eiffel Tower in Paris with 60 tons of brown paint! The ancient Spartans bathed their newborn baby boys in wine to test their strength.
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Templo S.U.D. almost 11 years ago
No DUIs in Sparta back then I reckon. There’s also Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in Wales. Does the 60 tons count for a second coat? If not, that would take the 25 painters three years.
juicebruce almost 11 years ago
The stats on the Mackinaw bridge in Michigan are crazy also.
emile.a.schwarz almost 11 years ago
More details here (French):http://www.lemoniteur.fr/181-innovation-chantiers/article/actualite/604086-la-tour-eiffel-une-belle-brune-de-120-ans
In fact the complete article. Read carefully the last sentence:Painting will have to be pickled
because that have never been done.
The painting is done once every 7 years (since it was built).
emile.a.schwarz almost 11 years ago
>Brown paint:Eiffel Tower Brown Paint: it is a specially created paint. In fact, three flavors exists: the darker in lower stage, the lighter in the tops…
suzleigh almost 11 years ago
Why would bathing in wine test strength?
3pibgorn9 almost 11 years ago
One in Wales is even longer.Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
The whole thing doesn’t even fit here. heh heh
Stephen Gilberg almost 11 years ago
Then there’s Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg in Massachusetts.
boldyuma almost 11 years ago
All those long city names sound like what my dog sounds like while lapping up water in her bowl(and the resulting stomach noises)
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr almost 11 years ago
Most long town names are basically place descriptions of where they’re located in the native language; Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, for instance, means “St Mary’s church in the hollow of the white hazel near to the fierce whirlpool and the church of St Tysilio of the red cave” in Welsh.
emile.a.schwarz almost 11 years ago
Internet is your friend there. Don’t be shy, come on…
AmyGrantfan51774 almost 11 years ago
didn’t know the Spartans bathed boys in wine to show their strength sorry about it being a day late but I skipped it yesterday