Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 24, 2014
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Transcript:
Five time Tour de France winner Miguel Indurain (now retired) had a resting heart rate of just 28 beats per minute! The first Porsche was a hybrid designed by Ferdinand Porsche in 1900- the Lohner-Porsche Semper Vivus was powered by both petrol and electric motors and could reach 35 MPH. There is a phone booth... On the roof of the Lincoln, Illinois City Hall it was installed in the 1960s as a weather station so watchers could use the phone to warn of bad weather.
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Templo S.U.D. almost 10 years ago
Is that booth still operational to do its purpose? I also wonder what its digits are.
oldpine52 almost 10 years ago
If it were in Chicago, the receiver would be missing and gang banger graffiti would be painted all over it.
Kali39 almost 10 years ago
And visitors strangely keep hearing this noise from the roof that sounds like VWORP! VWORP! VWORP!
Space_cat almost 10 years ago
A phone booth on the roof? Now how is Clark Kent supposed to get up there without revealing his secret identity?
Simon_Jester almost 10 years ago
It seems Porsche has come full circle. Their latest supercar, the 918 Spyder, is also a hybrid.[]http://www.porsche.com/microsite/no-substitute/usa.aspx#918-spyder
e.groves almost 10 years ago
Doping ruined the tour de france for me.
jeffdos924 almost 10 years ago
Funny thing….I grew up in Lincoln, IL ( until I was 16) and I don’t remember a phone up there at all. Checked w/ street view and , sure enough, there it is.
corpcasselbury almost 10 years ago
Miguel Indurain has a resting heart rate of 28 beats per minute? Are they sure he’s conscious?
Stephen Gilberg almost 10 years ago
More than two seconds per heartbeat? Did he, like, not move the rest of the time?
tuslog64 almost 10 years ago
Let’s see now Tornado spotted 5 miles SW, headed this way – oops, can’t find a dime!
tuslog64 almost 10 years ago
The payphone industry did itself in. Once I was at Lambert (St. Louis) and wanted to call home. As I recall, the pay phone required $4 for a 120 mile call! So, on the drive home, stopped at Belz Mall (suburban Wentzville) and made the call for 50c!Easy to see how frequent fliers were the first to get the cell phone industry going!
tuslog64 almost 10 years ago
One man once reported waiting 1/2 hour to use a payphone booth. And when the man ahead was leaving the booth, he was tucking a cellphone back into his pocket!
english.ann almost 10 years ago
Corpcasselbury,The fewer beats per minute, the STRONGER that heart is; the more efficient each heartbeat is. Some doctors who have written books on exercise say this.