Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 02, 2014
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Ripley's Believe It or Not! The German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen wrote a piece to be played by a string quartet in four hovering helicopters. An electric eel can produce enough power to run a microwave! Designer Sofia Diaz de la Rocha of Miami has made a dress from sawdust!
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Templo S.U.D. about 10 years ago
Just beware of termites when wearing Sofia’s dress, ladies.
phelpsgates about 10 years ago
This is a little misleading. A big electric eel can produce 750 volts at one ampere, which is 750 watts, which might be enough (barely) to run a small microwave. But this is an instantaneous discharge of 1/500 second or less. So don’t plan on catching electric eels to cook your dinner.
corpcasselbury about 10 years ago
Herr Stockhausen has way too much free time on his hands.
mcboyes96 about 10 years ago
I don’t know about the helicopter quartet. They are pretty loud.
Nighthawks Premium Member about 10 years ago
speaking of German composers and helicopters:
Charlie Fogwhistle about 10 years ago
I just got a splinter.
phelpsgates about 10 years ago
Your arithmetic looks good. But I think it takes about 3 minutes to heat a cup of instant coffee. So you’d actually need 54,000 eels.
boldyuma about 10 years ago
I don’t need a eel for my microwave..I need a eel to keep the neighbors dog from pooping on my lawn..