Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 14, 2016

Morioka-san must have quite a business.

“Ride, ride my seesaw. Take my place on this trip just for me—” Moody Blues.

They must be print on demand type books or he would have inventory of other titles.

I wonder if Yoshiyuki Morioka got his idea from the “One Book Bookstore” in Bisbee, Arizona?

The Tokyo bookstore idea is a good idea as long as the book being sold is a best seller.

Wouldn’t it have been more informative to just say the tongue is traveling at 60 mph or even 97 kph? Or 5, 760 for that matter. The see-saw or teeter-totter (whatever) is certainly yawn worthy.There are so many amazing things, especially little known facts, that it looks to me like Believe it or Not has lost focus. I know someone will say if I don’t like it I don’t have to read it. I have been reading it for some 65 years so I think I can wish for improvement. Somewhere I found a tattered, very brown Pocket Book paper back copy of Believe it or not when I was 10 or so. I was hooked early.

What does he do with the copies that don’t sell that week? I’d need to go to that store. And you can still buy Walter Swan’s (formerly of Bisbee, AZ) original book on Amazon. Title: “Me ’n Henry” – quote marks are part of the title, tho you don’t need them to search. [I left AZ before he became famous, so when I knew him he was probably in his 50s, but his youngest were my age. He told good stories about life in Arizona of the 1920s and later. He later wrote some other books (remember, he quit school by about 6th or 8th grade. Several years later I was living in TX and in some waiting room I saw an article (People magazine?) about some old duffer who ran the One Book Bookstore with his own book the One Book. I thought the picture looked familiar, but didn’t remember his name. Later I drove through there and he’d written some more books and had another bookstore next door: “The Other Bookstore” where he sold his other books.

How does the second person get on the seesaw at 25 feet up?

So, A chameleon’s tongue accelerates at 264 times the force of gravity? A safe guess would be that that would only apply to the females!