Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 13, 2016
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June 14, 2016
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Serious black!! The darkest material ever created, vantablack, can only be used by one artist- sculptor Anish Kapoor. On May 8, 1936, jockey Ralph Neves was thrown from his horse and declared dead. He woke up in the morgue, and return to the racetrack and one the next race. A pair of shoes measuring 17 feet long and 8 feet wide at the Marikina Shoe Museum in the Philippines can fit 30 people inside!
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Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr over 8 years ago
Can an artist ever really own a colour?https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/shortcuts/2016/feb/29/anish-kapoor-vantablack-paint
therese_callahan2002 over 8 years ago
Those shoes are perfect for the old lady and her kids.
Chad Cheetah over 8 years ago
Well, it’s been eighty years since that jockey went from the morgue and won the race. I know if I was in that situation, I’d be too disoriented and hungry to even go to a horse track.
Brown Leghorn over 8 years ago
They say “Get back on the horse that threw you” Ralph did just fine!
derdave969 over 8 years ago
I bet Imelda Marcos owned the shoes.
MJKesquire over 8 years ago
30 total or 30 in each shoe?
corpcasselbury over 8 years ago
I wonder how the morgue staff reacted when they saw Ralph get up?
farmertom8 over 8 years ago
He never was in the morgue. you would think Ripley’s would at least Google some of this fluff they print.
benbrilling over 8 years ago
I’m pretty sure black velvet is blacker than any black paint. And if you want something blacker than black velvet, try hundreds of needles squashed together viewed from the point-end.
benbrilling over 8 years ago
I wonder what those 30 people are doing in those shoes?
Pedmar Premium Member over 8 years ago
Are they really shoes if nobody can actually wear them?