Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 08, 2017
February 07, 2017
February 09, 2017
Transcript:
40! Forty is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order. Tsutomu Yamaguchi of Nagasaki, Japan, survive not one, but two atomic bombings in 1945- one while on a trip to Hiroshima, the other upon his return home three days later. In 1857, SB Ellithorp patented the squirrel machine- a sewing machine shaped like a gray squirrel!
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Templo S.U.D. about 7 years ago
Can Ellithrop’s 160-year-old, squirrel-shaped sewing machine still be found somewhere?
therese_callahan2002 about 7 years ago
That inventor was nuts!
matthew about 7 years ago
Depending on your perspective, Tsutomu is either one of the luckiest or one of the unluckiest people in history.
gmartin997 about 7 years ago
The bombs had little to do with ending the war. The Japanese high command didn’t even know about the bombs until weeks later; their main concern was the Russians.
pearlsbs about 7 years ago
Dos.
barlow52 about 7 years ago
what about 32, thirty two?
Max Starman Jones about 7 years ago
People have sometimes accused me of having too much time on my hands for discovering odd facts, but the “40” thing is something even I wouldn’t have had the time to think about.
namelocdet about 7 years ago
I could never understand why 40 isn’t spelled f-o-u-r-t-y.
Gent about 7 years ago
Hmm… And just two numbers away from 40 is 42, the “Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything”
HabaneroBuck about 7 years ago
Were we really just bombing Japan, or where we trying to take out Tsutomo?