Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 29, 2016
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Transcript:
In 1876, Maria Spelterini became the only woman to cross Niagara Falls on a high wire. David Wilkinson of Martinsburg, West Virginia, wrote the numbers 1 to 1,000,000 both numerically and alphabetically not once, but twice, taking about 16 years to complete! Approximately 6024 songs are performed at the Grand Ole Opry each year!
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Tossle Premium Member almost 8 years ago
David took 16 years to write his list, but how many hours per day did he write for, 1, 5, 10?
oldpine52 almost 8 years ago
David needs to get a life.
Templo S.U.D. almost 8 years ago
When did David commence that project? The year 2000?
wmwiii Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Well, that’s 16 years he’ll never get back.
fuzzbucket Premium Member almost 8 years ago
I see Dave doesn’t get any party invitations.
tom_wright almost 8 years ago
David has entirely too much time on his hands. Get a life, David.
J Short almost 8 years ago
I guess it’s better than “All work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy.”
J Short almost 8 years ago
Approximately 6024 songs? That is a pretty specific “approximation”; couldn’t have been rounded to 6000 +/- 25 or 6025? I guess the 24 is to make it more believable.
matthew almost 8 years ago
That “6024 songs” stat is impressive until you break it down. That amounts to an average of ~17 songs per day, or about 2 hours of music. That’s not a lot for a place that is dedicated to music.
joe piglet Premium Member almost 8 years ago
I was told that you could not verbally count to 1000000 in a life time. One , two, three is the easy part.But six hundred and fifty two thousand, one hundred and eighty three. Then doing it for ….. one eighty four, …. one eighty five, etc is an example of the longer part.
geraldrmanning almost 8 years ago
aw, come on. Hillbillies can’t even count to a million! I know. I am one!
geraldrmanning almost 8 years ago
How long would it take to write ONE HUNDRED EIGHTEEN THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED TWENTY SEVEN? about 10 seconds. So, I can do six a minute, right? that makes 360 an hour. So if I divide 1M by 360 that’s a bit over 2700 hours … which means, at a 40 hour week would be almost 70 weeks…. mercy, what does he do with the other 7 years of his life?
Mostly Water Premium Member almost 8 years ago
David is obviously obsessive compulsive and cannot control his need to write numbers.
FassEddie almost 8 years ago
Graziano depicts Wilkinson as a character in a dark and ominous state.
Max Starman Jones almost 8 years ago
Actually, we are just taking Wilkinson’s word for it — who would want to check him?
LV1951 almost 8 years ago
Just think of all the paper and ink or pencil he wasted!
chain gang charlie almost 8 years ago
Too bad they haven’t performed any real country music there since early seventies…
hankgillette almost 8 years ago
Walking across the Niagara Gorge on a tightrope was a thing for awhile back in the 1850s. Check out Charles Blondin of France, the most famous. Among other stunts, he offered to carry a volunteer across on his back! Naturally, he got no takers, so he drafted his manager. Halfway across, he needed to rest, so he had his manager get down, stand on the rope until M. Blondin felt ready to continue, then had him climb back on his back and completed the trip.