Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 26, 2021

My dermatologist has instilled in me a rational fear of sunlight.

Clark County, Washington is going heliophobic a bit right now.

I also have multipliCATion problems – I can’t even solve one…

Is Sanaa Hiremath an example of nominative determinism?

I couldn’t remember 12 digit numbers long enough to be able to ad them, much less multiply them.

But what about intense and rational fear of sunlight?

I once took a math wiz.

Take care, may used text book hoarder Charley “The Worm” O’Lookyord be with you, and gesundheit.

Does the Echidnas nurse it’s hatchlings like all self respecting mammals do?

I’m afraid of people who are afraid of sunlight – what would that be called?

My heliophobia has led to mower phobia, so I don’t cut grass anymore.

I don’t know about all mammals but lots of comedians and actors lay eggs all the time.

Congratulations to Miss Hiremath. A truly talented young person. I wish her great success in whatever field she chooses.

Maybe she should take a shot at the national budget. Oh, that’s right. She does the 12 number problems. Solving the NB would her and ten others like her.

It’s the sun from Super Mario 3!

So, she’s good at arithmetic, but will Sanaa Hiremath be any good at higher math?

The intense and irrational fear of truth is called ‘tRumpsphobia’.

“Hiremath”? Occasionally we do get a ‘Not’.

Don’t order the echidnas at Taco Bell.

If Sanaa used a pen, paper, or calculator to solve a 12-digit math problem she wouldn’t be doing it “mentally” would she? DUHHH

That echidnas are gonna confuse the hell outta aliens…

I think Donald Dumpster and Rudi Giuliani have laid a few eggs in the past year!

Her name is “Hiremath”? I love it when the name of the person fits their story.

Selenophobia is the moon counterpart for a bit of trivia and the echidna is a monotreme (the other monotreme is the platypus)

Enough with the.phobias. They’re all believable. Just add the Latin prefix to -phobia.

Okay, 2×1000000000000=200000000000. Easy Peazy.

The only known way to combat heliophobia is to moon everyone you see…

I have a “fear” of sunlight, after having 5 skin cancer operations.

Sanaa Hiremath’s skill at arithmetic is remarkable, but then I remember that Maharishi School in Fairfield, Iowa teaches techniques from India for calculating multiplication in a single line. Add eidetic (photographic) memory to that and we’ve got her method of calculating.

Two problems with the monotremes panel.1. The hedgehog is not a monotremes and doesn’t lay eggs.2. The platypus, the only monotreme apart from the echidna, is not mentioned.