Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 23, 2016
Transcript:
Japan's Kami-Shirataki train station operates for a single passenger every day! In 2000, Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki of Sydney University studied belly button lint from nearly 5000 people! On December 10, 2010, the $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize was presented to an empty chair!
dagilxxx over 8 years ago
Actually in another 3 days the train station comment won’t be true: Trains stop at the station based on the schoolgirl’s timetable and pass by when she is on holiday on her classes are off.The station is served by the single-track and lies 50 miles from the official starting point of the line at Shin-Asahikawa.It is now scheduled to close permanently on March 26.(March 26th, 2016 is when the girl using it graduates from High School)
joe piglet Premium Member over 8 years ago
We have a bunch of, small shelters, stations in Ontario that you need to call CN the day before and they will stop. In the North though you can still flag the train to stop anywhere along the side of the track.
TomGn over 8 years ago
I thought the 2010 prize was Obama"s but he had a golf game schedueled
JohnoTeacher over 8 years ago
Gotta love Dr Karl! It should be noted (for Non-Aussies) that he’s one of our best public Science communicators. He has an unerring instinct for scientific studies that bring out the weird and hilarious side of Science. His books are amazing.
Max Starman Jones over 8 years ago
Did they get Clint Eastwood to award that Nobel Peace Prize?
Would the train have run for a married passenger?
Did the doctor give up his work during Lent?
e.groves over 8 years ago
Dr. Karl’s will be studying “Toe Jam” next.
1Friendo over 8 years ago
Why not? They gave it to an empty suit in 2009.
papabear over 8 years ago
What a coincidence, the 2010 Nobel was presented to the same entity as the 2009.
comixbomix over 8 years ago
Thanks, Dr. Karl, but, they were already doing that, at The Navel Academy…
BeniHanna6 Premium Member over 8 years ago
In January 2016, it was reported on Chinese state broadcaster CCTV’s Facebook page that the station was being kept open for the benefit of just one high-school girl who used the station to commute to and from school, and that it was scheduled to close when the girl graduated.1 However, it was later revealed that the station in question was actually Kyū-Shirataki Station, two stops away, and there is no evidence that the timing of the closure of either station was connected with the girl’s graduation.
bigsnooze over 8 years ago
I have a empty chair at my house
Jogger2 over 8 years ago
In the comic strip L’il Abner, there was a Fearless Fosdick episode in which a Chippendale chair was a criminal mastermind.
yangeldf over 8 years ago
why couldn’t they tell us that japanese person’s name? I’m guessing he or she lives in a village so small they’re the only person who commutes by train.
Brown Leghorn over 8 years ago
I am to understand that the committe plans to retrieve the prize from the likes of Obama
Tarredandfeathered over 8 years ago
Nope. SHE is a high school student.The Japanese value Education above all other concerns.
Dan Dwyer over 8 years ago
The chair probably deserved it more than Obama.
Tossle Premium Member over 8 years ago
I live on a country rail line, sometimes it stops at stations which have no passengers at all.
arthurseery over 8 years ago
The 2010 Peace Prize went to Liu Xiaobo. Unfortunately, Liu is in Prison. So this post is crap.BTW— MOST Nobel Prize recipients are not present to receive the Prize.