Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 31, 2011
August 30, 2011
September 01, 2011
Transcript:
Broadcast rights to the first televised FIFA World Cup in 1954 were given away free. Bite 2010, those tournament rights sold for $2.4 billion! Believe it or not! Ferdinand Magellan wasn't the first person to circumnavigate the globe! He died along with more than 200 of his men in the attempt, while his second in command, Juan Sebastian Elcano, completed the journey. Bishinu Shrestha, a soldier from Pokhara, Nepal, was riding on a train on Sept. 2, 2010, when it was robbed by a gang of more than 3 dozen men. Armed with only his kukri knife and terribly outnumbered, he fought for his life and drove them off!
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FatTonyBalducci over 12 years ago
Geez!! talk about inflation!
TheHillsHaveDerp over 12 years ago
The Animaniacs taught me the Magellan thing. (Yippe yay kay yeh poor ghost of Magellan/ all the time the East Indes were right over there)
cedes29 over 12 years ago
@Autumn Cottongim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM-igYjn6E4
Puddleglum2 over 12 years ago
Magellan didn’t have ‘a ghost of a chance’ to make it all the way around the world.
Puddleglum2 over 12 years ago
Bravo to Bishnu Shrestha! It reminds me of the saying, ‘One man with God is a majority’!Jonathan and his armor-bearer did a similar thing in the first half of I Samuel 14.
billsales over 12 years ago
Broadcast rights are way overrun. I’ll bet they were repeats.
Malcolm Hall over 12 years ago
Did Magellan die on his first or second attempt to circumnavigate the world? It’s unclear.
comicnut4636 over 12 years ago
Nothing wrong with the FIFA. Just joining the MLB, NHL, NFL, NBA, NCAA, PGA, NASCAR, F1,and on and on and on…
runar over 12 years ago
The first super bowl wasn’t that hot either. It wasn’t even called the “Super Bowl” – it was the “NFL-AFL Championship Game”. The players on the winning team got a bonus of $15,000, and no networks bid for the broadcast rights.
runar over 12 years ago
hemohlobin – v.: circumnavigating the world. First mentioned as the reply to the question, “Where is your husband, Mrs. Magellan?”
dickn2000c over 12 years ago
The Bishnu Shrestha soldier entry says he was using a Kukri knife, but the illustration shows him holding not a kukri knife but what looks like a meat cleaver. You folks need to do more research.
tuslog64 over 12 years ago
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the amount of fight in the dog that counts.
ginamguetti over 12 years ago
The Chinese sailed around the globe in 1421 before Magellan.
Jogger2 over 12 years ago
Magellan did travel to East Asia, by traveling eastward some time before his attempt to circumnavigate the Earth. The location at which he was killed is, by longitude, further west than the furthest east he had reached in previous trips. So, if his whole life time is taken into account, he did circumnavigate the Earth.
ProfLindenbrook over 12 years ago
Hey “Noodle Dick” it’s drawn in perspective and it’s clearly a kukri knife
lindenbrook over 12 years ago
Yes! He is a Gurkha and he sure kicked butt :)
okchase2 over 12 years ago
Actually, there was a slave in Magellan’s fleet that had originally come from the Indies. So I think he would be a better candidate for the first to circumnavigate the globe, though he’d started a little sooner than the others in the expedition.
lummysdad over 12 years ago
Once again Ripley’s doesn’t know what it’s saying. Magellan WAS the first to circumnavigate the world. He traveled east from Europe to the Phillipines some years before.