Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 18, 2020

The 五円 and 五十円 coins in Japan already look like doughnuts.

My favorite date-span analogy is that it wasn’t until 20 years after Apollo 11 that they figured out to put wheels on luggage. It was another 20 years later that they figured out to put four wheels on luggage.

How many 100’s of 1,000’s of years did it take humans to go from managing fire to its first powered flight? Then another 30 years to get from the Wright Flyer to the DC-3, and only 36 more to land on the Moon and return. If we graphed the rate of advancement of technology over time, I figure the curve must be pretty close to vertical now.

America runs on Duncoins.

Oh great, so I would get hungry every time I pay cash for something.

That last one— makes me wonder what advancements in flight that mankind will see in 2035 (66 years after Apollo 11).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilo_and_stitch#Soundtrack

Only five actually sung by Elvis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Creole_(soundtrack)

11 songs.

excuse me, but believe it or not, “Elvis on Tour” is an Elvis film, and he does 30 songs in that movie

The Douglas DC-3 has been called the “greatest single aircraft design ever”; that aircraft brought scheduled commercial aviation into reality…. and it’s still flying commercially (freight)!

You won’t have to remind me to avoid the “Lilo and Stitch” movie. 66 years is an eternity when it comes to tech now. The donut shaped coins would have saved a mint.

Take care and gesundheit.

Too bad the rise of CO2 curve is close to vertical as well.

Canadian two dollars coins are doughnuts with the hole filled in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toonie

I’m more impressed at how little time elapsed between the automobile and the plane.

I guess the Treasury just had a ‘yen’ to make coins with holes in them…

“Fewer” than…

A coil called a washer.

And someone from ohio was involved in both..the Wright brothers in 1903, and Neil Armstrong in 1969

STITCH