Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 25, 2011
Transcript:
For solving the poincare conjecture, a centry-old geometry problem, Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman was awarded the fields medal and a $1,000,000 millennium prize. But refused to accept both when they were presented to him! Russell "Rock Bottom" Byars of Franklin, Penn., USA can skip a stone 51 times across a lake before it sinks! As a result of prior arrests- a woman from Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England, was banned from buying alcohol in any establishment in England and Wales for at least one year!