Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 21, 2016
Transcript:
Denny Hamlin won the Daytona 502,016 by only .01 seconds- the closest finish in the race's history! During his stay on the ISS, astronaut Scott Kelly witnessed 10,944 sunrises and sunsets! Art student Demi Barnes created a wedding dress made from over 1500 divorce papers!
Templo S.U.D. about 8 years ago
How did Demi obtain all those divorce papers?
Bilan about 8 years ago
If that was literal, Scott spent too much time staring out of the porthole.
tom_wright about 8 years ago
Now that’s just plain stupid, Demi.
jf13fox about 8 years ago
Pretty sure scotty boy slept from time to time
aimlesscruzr about 8 years ago
The Scott Kelly “factoid” is strange. 10,944 sunrises and sunsets is equivalent to 342 earth days (16 sunrises and 16 sunsets every 24 hours). His year long mission in space was 340 days aboard the ISS. But he also commanded the ISS during Expedition 25 (about two months) and Expedition 26 (about four months). So his total time aboard the ISS is far longer than the 342 days that he “witnessed”. So let’s say they only counted waking hours, about two thirds of each day of his roughly 520 days does equate to 346 days awake. So they must mean “witnessed” as his awake time even though he did not “watch” all of them.Or did he?
aimlesscruzr about 8 years ago
Speaking of close finishes, I was at the Rockingham track in ’04 when Matt Kenseth beat Kasey Kahne by 0.01 seconds…
billpat1 about 8 years ago
Does that mean her marriage is destined for divorce?
Charlie Fogwhistle about 8 years ago
I just hope Scott Kelley hadn’t seen Fiddler on the Roof just before heading to space. Man, talk about an ear worm.
comixbomix about 8 years ago
Well, at least she won’t ever have to irony that dress…
CeeJay about 8 years ago
Demi Barnes….ever the optimist!
SeaFox10 about 8 years ago
No he didn’t! He just traveled around the Earth 10,944 times!
Great Wizard Nala about 8 years ago
Actually, the divorce papers are from ONE divorce!!! How do you think lawyers make money
Stephen Gilberg about 8 years ago
Denny reminds me of an Olympian who won by two thousandths of a second. You’d think the judges would accept the possibility of hitting the stopwatch too fast of slow.