Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 25, 2015

If a jiffy is 1/100 of a second, then why is Jiffy Pop brand popcorn not cooked in that amount of time?

Wikipedia list several definitions of a jiffy as a time unit:

“In electronics, a jiffy is the period of an alternating current power cycle, 1/60 or 1/50 of a second in most mains power supplies.

“In computing, a jiffy was originally the time between two ticks of the system timer interrupt.[ It is not an absolute time interval unit, since its duration depends on the clock interrupt frequency of the particular hardware platform.

“Early microcomputer systems such as the Commodore 64 and many game consoles (which use televisions as a display device) commonly synchronize the system interrupt timer with the vertical frequency of the local television standard, either 59.94 Hz with NTSC systems, or 50.0 Hz with most PAL systems. Jiffy values for various Linux versions and platforms have typically varied between about 1 ms and 10 ms, with 10 ms reported as an increasingly more common standard in the Jargon File.

“The term “jiffy” is sometimes used in computer animation as a method of defining playback rate, with the delay interval between individual frames specified in 1/100th-of-a-second (10 ms) jiffies, particularly in Autodesk Animator .FLI sequences (one global frame frequency setting) and animated Compuserve .GIF images (each frame having an individually defined display time measured in 1/100 s).

“The speed of light in a vacuum provides a convenient universal relationship between distance and time, so in physics (particularly in quantum physics) and often in chemistry, a jiffy is defined as the time taken for light to travel some specified distance. In astrophysics and quantum physics a jiffy is, as defined by Edward R. Harrison, the time it takes for light to travel one fermi, which is approximately the size of a nucleon. One fermi is 10^−15 m, so a jiffy is about 3 × 10^−24 seconds. It has also more informally been defined as “one light-foot”, which works out as approximately one nanosecond.6

“One author has used the word jiffy to denote the Planck time of about 5.4 × 10^−44 seconds, which is the time it would take light to travel a Planck length if ordinary geometry were still relevant at that scale.”

Your 1/100 sec., or 10ms, is only used in certain spexific contexts.

This article got the wrong rat. The rat in question is in fact the Gambian Pouched Rat, also known as the African Giant Pouched Rat. The African Pouched Rat is the Emin’s Pouched Rat, commonly available as a pet…most famously shown as such in the series finale of Fawlty Towers.

Which came first, the word “jiffy” or it’s use as actual units of time?

And then there is the archaic velocity of furlongs per fortnight!

I am more concerned about the timespan term “A Trot”How many Trots does it take to get to the bathroom..The fewer the better….

… “one of the only” … ?

Fools !! It’s a brand of peanut butter (well, jif).

Ripleys started it…What is a skosh?..My buddy Dave always talked about a skosh..

Whats an RCH?

“One of the only” is one of the worst phrases in use today.It’s like saying “one of the one.”

Rats are so smart! The Gambian pouched rats are also trained to sniff out land mines.And, of Course they are called the Hero Rat Corp. I have had pet rats do amazing things.They are great pets. They enjoy their companion-people, and have no bad odor, they clean themselves more than cats even, and; surprise! the females often smell faintly like 7-up.