Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 03, 1998
Transcript:
81-year-old Donat Gadoury of Québec, Canada, could lift a barbell weighing over 10 times his age! (841 lbs.) if you had a penny for every time you met someone, you could be $50,000 richer! Sy Bondy of Miami has collected a penny from every person he has met over the last two months- so far he has collected 5 million pennies or $50,000 in cash! Believe It or Not! You will never find it in your of corn with an odd number of rows!
Let’s see…
Five million divided by sixty equals about 83,300 times of meeting another person a day. There are 86,400 seconds in a day. So he’d need to meet about one person a second, around the clock. Seems legit. Not.