Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 30, 2015

So how does one tell the difference between a polar bear and a kermode bear?

60miles x 1.6Km/mile = 96Km. Closer. Always remember units.

How long is the beach at low tide?Did Kamikaze Pilots get demoted if they don’t die?

I wonder if it would be possible to trap a few and release them into the Great Smokies.

If he survived 2 missions, then they weren’t suicide missions…they were near-death missions

Ena survived both suicide missions because his plane crashed both times before he got to his target, both times due to engine failure, once right after takeoff, the other over sea.

So many un-answered questins. Gotta go Google. According to the Japanese Times, he couldn’t complete his first mission because of engine trouble. The second mission crashed at sea because of engine failure. He spent 2 1/2 months on a small island before being rescued just days before the end of the war by a Japanese submarine.

Seriously?! The kamikaze program was idiotic beyond all comprehension. It was instituted only because the militarists running Japan at the time refused to acknowledge that the war was lost and end it. Young men like Ena were what Japan needed to help rebuild and turn itself into a truly modern nation. Your comment defies logic, to say nothing of human decency.

A white colored black bear would be easy to tell from a polar bear- location and the head shapes are quite different. Also black bears are ~250-500 lbs, whereas polar bears are ~990 lbs; way bigger.

Re: kamakaze pilot- so really, because he survived two kamikaze attempts, he failed twice. That’s a lot of major failure.

The planes the kamikaze pilots were expected to fly were not the much respected Zero. The planes were made out of what little the Japanese had left for materials, barely able to fly, and loaded with explosives and gasoline. The pilots received the bare minimum of training.

The Germans also had “kamikazes” near the end of the war. They were the home guard, made up mainly of boys and old men. It was a fruitless cause, and many of them died as well.