Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 29, 2022

I was once rear ended by a guy who had the exact same birth date as me.

If you count the tens of billions of neurons in the brain, the combined length of fibers comes out to hundreds of thousands of miles.

Also, if you like the birthday problem, there’s a bunch of variants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem#Other_birthday_problems

so a newborn baby still has around 64 kilometers of nerves?

I don’t know why it would be considered a paradox. It’s just a simple statistical fact.

The chances of anyone there having their birthday on the same day as me, can be reduced by 25%… As a mater of fact, my Army Sergeant did…

I recently had a procedure done on my elbow to correct a compressed ulnar nerve that required a 3-inch incision and some sutures.

Guess you can say I had surgery on my funny bone that left me in stitches.

During my time in college, I was in an anatomy of 20 students and 5 of us shared the same birthday.

Potatoes. Another excuse for NASA to spend billions of taxpayers money.

I remember going to a fast food joint/restaurant for my birthday, I think I was somewhere in my mid 20s, and a boy and girl both shared the same birthday as me. Can you imagine being in a room full of many people and the only other people who did share your birthday were infants?

“It is my baby’s birthday today. It is also my baby’s. And today is my big baby’s today.”

It has not happened to me, but that might be rather embarrassing.

You! Hey, YOU! Yes YOU. You’ve got a lot of nerve. All eight billion of you. .. lol, lmao, etc… so on, so forth…

Take care, may wannabe space potato Spud “I Asked Many Times ‘Why Not’ But Would They Load Me Onto The Shuttle No And So Here I Am All Mashed And Mixed In With These Common Idaho Russets” Butteredord be with you, and gesundheit.

As I understand it, Einstein is attributed for calculating the birthday fact. I guess not everything he did was monumental.

My daughters have the same birthday. They are twins.

My avatar is a portrait of a friends beloved dog that I painted!

When will science explain those who age only 25% of the rate of most people? Where is the social justice? Where is the social equity?

And the complimentary question is, “How many people have to be in the group to guarantee that two have the same birthday?” — What is your first guess and what is your considered answer (if different).

Well, after the past 2 years I am now functioning on mile 40.

So, in a group of 360, one for every day in a normal year, the chances of each of them having different birthday and using the entire year would be possible, but probably never going to happen. But my question is, could we reasonably expect to see 15 couple with the same birthday, or maybe in some cases, more than 2 with the same birthday?

That’s 2,534,400 inches and some people get on every one of them.

Potatoes, feeling safe and snuggly, buried in the Earth suddenly find themselves living in almost empty Outer Space. That’s a REAL change of life moment.

Some people have the ability to irritate 41 miles of nerve.

So a good prank would have been to take Mr. Potato Head to space and hide them among the moon rocks for future astronauts.

When flipping a coin, there is a 50% chance it will land on heads!

The “Birthday Paradox” is interesting, but why do they call it a paradox? There’s nothing paradoxical about it.

I once owned a bar and one guy was shooting a game of pool,when another guy came in and asked if he could shoot some with him. I a little bit they both came to me and asked me my name and i said Dave then one said tell this guy my name and i said his is Dave also. It ended up that he was also a Dave. 3 Dave’ s all for the price of one!!!

Y’want some big numbers ? Well, here y’go !! Figure 100 billion neurons in the human brain (1 followed by 11 zeros). Figure at least 1000, perhaps 10,000 synaptic connections per neuron. That adds up to one quadrillion (a million billion) connections. Try THAT switchboard on for side, Spacehoppers !!

My Mom had two Husbands during her life. Both were born on October 31st, niether worked out.

Believe it or Not, not EVERYONE has a birthday…..Some are born at NIGHT.

Not surprised, my tatties keep growing in my cupboard!

My brother and I are the same age 1 day every year, except on leap years when we’re the same age for two days.

The Birthday Paradox is no paradox. It’s simple probability theory.