Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 21, 2016
Transcript:
Verbal jousting! Performed between the 5th and 16th centuries in England and Scotland, flyting is the equivalent to the modern rap battle! What is the life expectancy of a Major League baseball? Seven pitches! German inventor Artur Fischer held more patents than Thomas Edison- 1100 in total!
What Fischer inventions are still used today anyway? (Seven pitches sure doesn’t seem long to me; I would’ve thought one pitch for each of the three strikes in the nine innings.)