Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 22, 2014
Transcript:
What did Gandhi... President Nixon... Jimmy Stewart... Charles Dickens... And serial killer Ed Gein have in common? They all played the accordion. The Axolotl salamander of Mexico can regrow a lost limb in 3 months. There were no horses in North America between 8000 BC, when they became extinct on the continent, and the 16th century when the Spanish reintroduced them.
Templo S.U.D. about 10 years ago
Hey, ‘tater. Even my own father, as a child, was an accordionist. Nick and Mary Yankovic thought their son Alfred would make one more famous accordion-playing Yankovic (the other being non-relative Frankie).
e.groves about 10 years ago
Nixon also bowled.
Guilty Bystander about 10 years ago
Nixon played the accordion? I wonder if he made any recordings…
Peam Premium Member about 10 years ago
1958! Genius!
tuslog64 about 10 years ago
Alexander the Great : Killed more people of more nationalities than anyone else had before him.Also, no one had the nerve to call him Alex the so and so!
LV1951 about 10 years ago
And Myron Floren!
english.ann about 10 years ago
If I were asked to name someone who plays the accordion, all I could have answered is, “Jack Van Impe.” The accordion was invented during Charles Dickens’ teen years, in Continental Europe. Accordions arrived in Britain when Dickens was nineteen years old. He would live 20 fewer years than Mohandas Gandhi, but accordions had been in the British Empire for fifty years when Gandhi was born. (Dickens died at 58, Gandhi at 78).
news_techren about 10 years ago
“Weird Al” Yankovic ought to be on that list. He’s the most famous.
Mariposamia about 10 years ago
Only one?
sdjamieson Premium Member about 10 years ago
So the Spanish introduced a salamander to the Americas that can grow an accordion in three months. I learn so much here!