Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 12, 2021

During World War 2, Gabriel “Coco” Chanel worked for Nazi military intelligence.

I was trying that with some paper, and all it did was make the paper smaller.

May the Lord be with you.

… but one of the giant beavers tried to attack a Korean Sapsali.

About seven times is the maximum amount of times you can fold any reasonable size piece of paper.

Damn that is one big Dam!

so I guess a 0.2-mm thick paper would go from the Earth, to the moon, and back to the Earth?

Now that’s a beaver that can eat you!!!!

Paper thickness=439.804651X10^6 meters. ~440 million meters. That’s about right.

Love Korea but rarely saw any dogs.

Beavers the size of what? Really? I can bearly believe it!

Years ago, I read something about walking a trail of books to the moon. That it was 100% possible.

And when were there beavers the size of bears? Huh? 1972? Try being a little less vague, Ripster!

Timber!

Not as startling as a bear the size of a beaver.

Take care, may Nebraska Champion Surfer Horst McGarciazord be with you, and gesundheit.

I think the paper’s thickness would then be .1mm X 2E42.

There is an anecdote about the wizard who did a good turn for the king. The monarch asked the other what he wished for a reward, he could name it himself. The wizard asked for a chess board to be produced and then said that his reward would be 1 grain of wheat (or 1 penny, or whatever) to be placed on the first square, and then two on the second, then four on the next, and so on; each square would hold twice the amount of its neighbor until the last square was filled. The king, being a monarch and thereby innocent of education, gleefully agreed. This reward was 2 to the 64th power and comprised more grain (or money) than was contained in the kingdom. As the amount of the award accumulated to prodigious proportions, so did the king’s anger. In the end the king, being a monarch, had the wizard beheaded.

Dam, big beaver.

So yet one more reason why 42 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything…

And here we spent all that time and money on Apollo.

Anyone want to supply the “punchline” for a beaver the size of a bear?

A Korean delicacy, Kim Jong-un ate the last one.

This gives ‘theories’ a bad name.

‘Yogi Beaver’ doesn’t seem to work.

The giant beavers went extinct when the early fur trappers had to clothe a lot of really fat people.

just 42 times???

Sapsaree for dinner anyone? Have a leg: it will keep bad luck away for hours! Well, ok, all it really does is keep the dog from begging at the table.

Sapsarees had a great marketing department!

Those beavers are why it’s called the Great Plains now.

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/494571-most-times-to-fold-a-piece-of-paper

World’s record is 12 folds.

Why would it have to be a 0.1mm piece of paper? If you could fold a 0.1mm thick pancake 42 times it should also mathematically work.

The only fact I knew here was the beaver fact. Probably because beavers are my favorite animal. Those beavers were prehistoric beavers, in case you didn’t know.

and horses were once the size of today’s rabbits.

Now that the paper mills have solved the space program, they can breed a few of those beavers to get the bigger trees…

So those prehistoric beavers were the ones who damned up the river which made the Grand Canyon.