Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 18, 2017
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Transcript:
Saint Louis du Ha! Ha! Saint Louis du Ha! Ha! in Quebec, Canada, is the only town in the world with two exclamation points in its name! The first Titanic movie was released a month after the ships' 1912 sinking and starred survivor Dorothy Gibson, who wore the same clothes in the film that she had worn on the ship. In ancient Greece, comets were called hairy stars!
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RadarRecon27 over 7 years ago
Hey, Ripley. Earth, Texas, is the only Earth on earth.
Templo S.U.D. over 7 years ago
Who was the founder of that Québécois community and how did he come up with THAT name?
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 7 years ago
I haven’t (yet) looked up the town…. but I know that a ha-ha or ha!-ha! is a garden wall, built to rise from the bottom of a distant down-slope, so you don’t see it until you’re close enough to look downhill.
I would imagine there is one in or near the town.
Templo…..
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Neo Stryder over 7 years ago
So does there exist other towns with an exclamation point?
Petemejia77 over 7 years ago
We call our hairy stars Robin Williams and Alec Baldwin!
Max Starman Jones over 7 years ago
The very word “comet” actually MEANS “long-haired-star,” from the Greek word “kometes.” You can look it up.