Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 09, 2015
Transcript:
In 1953, it took 27 hours to make one marshmallow Peep- now it takes just 6 minutes! In 3 months, Haryana, India's, Kautilya Pandit, 7, memorized the population, GDP, income, currency, religion, culture and heritage of 213 countries- earning him the nickname Google! Cats sweat through their paws!
Templo S.U.D. over 9 years ago
What a prodigy Li’l Mr. Pandit is! As for a 27-hour process to make a Peep, it must’ve taken a long time to hand sculpt it or something. As for cat perspiration, I never knew that when I used to have cats growing up.
Dean over 9 years ago
Check for those red wiggly underlines that Spell-check puts in before you hit SUBMIT.
Jogger2 over 9 years ago
Why is the fact about cats sweating through paws here? Isn’t that true of most all/mammals that have padded paws?
brooklyn51 over 9 years ago
It may only take 6 minutes to make a Peep but it still takes 6 months for them to properly age before eating them.
Nicole ♫ ⊱✿ ◕‿◕✿⊰♫ Premium Member over 9 years ago
As a Peeps fan – I think they taste delicious – I bet they tasted even better back in the old days.
Space_cat over 9 years ago
Yes, but what about funny cat videos? Did the kid memorize them?
Max Starman Jones over 9 years ago
Not intending to take sides on that one old argument, except that the items you chose to mention, to “single out,” have nothing to do with the learning — or lack of it — that is going on in schools worldwide.
In fact, the insistence on the things you whine about not being in books may be the same reason most Americans spell as you do.
Bob. over 9 years ago
One of the first thins we were told in engineering was “don’t try to memorize ever little thing you can look up in a couple of minutes”..
sdjamieson Premium Member over 9 years ago
Kautilya, Kautilya, Kautilya… youth is wasted on the young.
english.ann over 9 years ago
It’s been over forty years since I learned that DOGS have sweat glands only on their front paws, but I had no idea that CATS, too, perspire through their paws.