Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 30, 2017

I’m a little confused about Columbia’s San Diego Prison where “all meals are cooked and served by convicts”. I thought that in all prisons, meals were cooked and served by convicts.

I’m puzzled as how the Japanese were able to reverse the strawberries’ colors.

That raccoon had better watch out. He’s going to end up in the Cartagena prison AS lunch.

Rocket can pick locks better than any ordinary raccoon.

So, what’dya do with that Kreep, Rocket?

“randomly”… sure…

Now I’m wondering why I’ve never heard of a burglar who had a trained raccoon as an accomplice.

What kind of lock? Where does a raccoon get lock picking tools? I think they mean they can figure out a combination. But how would remembering it help? It might be a different lock.

Regarding the Bulgarian lottery, the odds of choosing a unique number once is 6 to the 6th power, or 6X6X6X6X6X6, OR 46,656. To choose the same set of 6 numbers 6 times in a row is 46,656 to the 6th power, or 1.0314425e+28. Highly improbable, right?

Whoops, there is a big error in my calculation. Make that 10 to the 6th power times 6.

The Algonquin called them mapatchly or masked one, I call them a good candidate for developing sapience, the raccoon.

On 6th September the numbers 4, 15, 23, 24, 35 and 42 were drawn on the Bulgaria lottery. Then, in the very next draw on 10th September exactly the same numbers were drawn again. There are 8145060 possible draws of 6 numbers from 1 to 45. So there are (8145060)^M total possibilities for a trial of M draws. There formulas for these things. Even if the lottery is run a million times the odds are less than 1 in 10000 of this kind of coincidence. But Ripley’s is busy searching for any kind of coincidence. There more than 10000 situations where these runs can be calculated. At least one of those defies the odds.

you can eat white strawberries whenever you like, just so long’s you don’t mind them unripe…