Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 30, 2016
July 29, 2016
July 31, 2016
Transcript:
At two cents a day, Emily Canellos-Simms owed Illinois's Kewanee Public Library $345.14 for a poetry book checked out in April, 1955- the world's largest fine for an overdue library book! Adam Rainer, of Graz, Austria, is the only person in medical history to have been classified as both a dwarf and a giant. The average adult rights by hand only about every 41 days!
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Marblemouth over 8 years ago
Boy, am I a freak! I write by hand EVERY day.
Templo S.U.D. over 8 years ago
So according to my calculations, Emily had that book for 17,257 days. Did she somehow forget she had the book these past 61 years?
drogers30 over 8 years ago
At 21 he was 3’10" at 51 when he died he was 7’10".
sweetaddietude over 8 years ago
Most libraries I have ever encountered stop the fine at the value of the book. And I also am an oddity as I write nearly every day.
BearsDown Premium Member over 8 years ago
Does signing the credit card terminal count?
Chad Cheetah over 8 years ago
I’m a kid and I write every day (I write stories.)
CeeJay over 8 years ago
I write every day too. Shopping list, things to be done each day.I have a nephew who can’t read cursive.
zippykatz over 8 years ago
Guess we aren’t able to see the dwarf part…
Rose Madder Premium Member over 8 years ago
And she still hasn’t finished reading the book…
wjones over 8 years ago
While I mostly use a keyboard, I still write something by hand almost every day.
pam Miner over 8 years ago
HOW can he be both a giant and a dwarf?
kvnkoehler over 8 years ago
I don’t know about the 41 day thing. Are they taking in account countries that don’t write at all? Otherwise I can’t believe that people don’t make shopping lists, or sign for a credit card purchase.
therese_callahan2002 over 8 years ago
There was a library book that was borrowed in 1823, and returned in 1968. The fine was way more than the one for that other book.