Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 14, 2017

Is that Chinese violin church Baptist or Methodist or something?

Our streets in Edmonton are mostly numbered. It is so much easier to find an address with numbered streets. Named streets came along when the city expanded.

In Lincoln Nebraska, the streets are numbers one direction and letters the other. Finding your way around is a cinch.

The poet was right, I have a sudden urge to go to McDonald’s.

Here in hillbilly country, the roads are neither numbered, lettered, or named on signs. One just ‘knows’ …..

I lived in a small village in Scotland and the houses were NAMED. If you wanted a phone number you had to wait till someone died!!!

And the houses are numbered in the order they were built.

Björk is björked in the head…

County roads in our area are numbered. The baseline (00N and 00E for Adams County , Illinois would be at a point near Palmyra, Missouri – on the other side of the Mississippi!

Oh! So “Where the Streets Have No Name” by U2 was really about Japan! It makes so much sense now… Though I wonder if they could have found what they were looking for if only they had known about the numbered blocks…

Sudoku was probably invented by a bored Japanese letter carrier.