Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 15, 2020

Evidently, many Mexican children are traumatized by the piñata blindfold ordeal.

A hundred just isn’t as much as it used to be.

so what was the Old Norse word for 100?

I’m wondering why they would have a singular word for 120. Wikipedia says it means six scores, but that still leaves the question open.

The festival seems like a waste of time while obviously being dangerous.

Here is the article including a photo where the Ripley’s artist copied a photo for the piece here. https://www.frankie.com.au/article/akie-nakata-turns-stones-into-pint-sized-critters-546565

I’ll take Mardi Gras, thank you.

Does Peter Gabriel show up for this event?

I remember when I used to live by this River, one of my hobbies was to walk on its banks and collect rocks, that’s where I found the smoothest, roundest rocks.

Hundrath – how we got the word: ‘huh’

So it was like when I was a kid; a roll of caps, a sidewalk, and a hammer.

A friend of mine, Chris Cherry, use to make those round balls that you could throw down on the ground and they would explode; only his would blow a hole in the ground. He made explosives all through his high school years. Now days people would freak about that. He is now living in Albuquerque, and was the guy who disarmed the Unabomber’s property and also the Shoe bomber. His thing now is creating robots that disarm bombs. Had he grown up in today’s world, he probably would have been stopped from carrying out his interests.

Aha! I live in St Paul, MN and have always wondered why Hwy 120 is also call Century Blvd. Mystery solved! It’s our Scandinavian heritage talking.

In the city of Chicago, they celebrate the festival of the exploding plate-glass windows.

On this day in history on August 15th 1914 The Panama Canal opens to traffic.

And yet, unaccountably, there are over a hundrath million Mexicans…

Festival of the Missing Arms, Hands & Digits followed soon after.

Exploding hammers? These people are making our Levi’s!

Cerveza, Hammers, and explosives…… what could go wrong?

Bis hundert und tsvantsig

(spelling Yiddish varies all over the place)

It’s an old expression in Yiddish.

May you live for 120 years

Were the people who set “hundred” at “120” born with six digits on each hand and foot?

Gives a new meaning to “pet rock”.

in the 60’s we would strap railroad torpedo’s to a sledgehammer and drop them from a roof. I had the hammer pop 10 feet straight up from the explosion. Ah Good Times. Never knew it was a thing

Congrats to John Graziano for not giving the Norseman a helmet with horns!

And on Wowser Wednesday they have the Festival of the Happy Amputees…

That is one cute tiny dog.

Ah-ah, ah!

Ah-ah, ah!

We come from the land of the ice and snow

From the midnight sun, where the hot springs flow

The hammer of the gods

W’ell drive our ships to new lands

To fight the horde, and sing and cry

Valhalla, I am coming!

On we sweep with threshing oar

Our only goal will be the western shore

stop, hammer time