Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 28, 1997
Transcript:
The Italian composer Alessandreo Scarlatti (1660-1725) once wrote fugue based on the sound created by his cat walking across the keys of a piano! The palmut vulture is the only vegetarian vulture! A radio station in Hermantown, Minn, (WWAX-FM) plays nothing but commercials! And here's another coffee oldie!
Back in the fifties, a TV station in Italy experimented with what they called a carousel.
They grouped the commercials and played them all at the top of the hour, rather than interrupting the programming. I never found out how it worked out, but I can imagine.