Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 24, 2015
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Transcript:
Between 1932 in 1939, Oskar Speck kayaked from Germany to Australia- only to be detained in a WWII internment camp for four years upon his arrival. If all the Scrabble tiles ever produced were placed in one long line, they would stretch 50,000 miles- twice the circumference of the earth! Gray seals sleep for only 90 seconds at a time.
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Templo S.U.D. about 9 years ago
A 1½-minute sleep sounds like a cat nap to me.
Bilan about 9 years ago
Gray seals have a whale of a problem.
charliefarmrhere about 9 years ago
It probably helps them from being sneaked up on & eaten by a Polar bear.
Space_cat about 9 years ago
I take it Herr Speck, avoided talking to anybody or reading newspapers after 1936.I’m sure the Aussies we’re tickled to have been “invaded” by the one-man Kriegsmarine!!
Cloudchaser about 9 years ago
Sucks to be a prey species. Us apex predators can sleep as long as we want
Old Texan75 about 9 years ago
Dag nab it, now I got to google Oskar Speck.
Max Starman Jones about 9 years ago
50,000 miles of Scrabble tiles, and I still don’t have any vowels except “i,” and nothing for triple word score.
Brown Leghorn about 9 years ago
Them seals would make good guard dogs, and they can bark to!
Dean about 9 years ago
Was the Suez canal open then?
spaced man spliff about 9 years ago
Other languages must produce their own Scrabble versions with different letter distributions. For example, the letters J, Q, and Z are very common in Spanish and French, and probably of a lower point value then in English. Same with K in German.
SharkNose about 9 years ago
That’s strange. I can only stay away for 90 seconds at a time…