Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 03, 2006

Transcript:

Irom Sharmila Chanu of India, has been on a hunger strike against the government since November 2000 and survived the last 6 years only by being force-fed in a hospital! Believe it or not! A pigeon's feathers are heavier than its bones! A flower bed takes up an elliptical plot exactly 100 square feet in area. It is bordered by a rock garden 4 feet wide, which is in turn surrounded by a path 4 feet wide. What is the area enclosed by the widest ellipse? A: The largest ellipse, the flower bed's border, and closes 100 square feet. The other two ovals are not ellipses!