Ripley's Believe It or Not by John Graziano for August 26, 2015
August 25, 2015
August 27, 2015
Transcript:
Achoo! Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, is known as the allergy capital of the world- many residents leave the city during spring pollen season! In 2006, Akira Haraguchi recited 111,700 digits of Pi from memory and 16 hours 30 minutes! Retired teacher Bruce Wilcox of Tustin, California, has collected 28 years worth of gum compensated from his students.
Bilan over 5 years ago
In Islamabad, the gum is given to the teacher unintentionally.
TEMPLO S.U.D. over 5 years ago
Did Haraguchi-san recite the pi digits in English (one, two, three, etc.) or in Japanese (ichi, ni, san, etc.) in those 16½ hours? How did he even take a breather?
therese_callahan2002 over 5 years ago
I’ll bet he gave some of those students impromptu haircuts just to get that gum.
bookworm0812 over 5 years ago
Yeah, but rare stamps can be worth a lot of money. And they’re not gross. You can’t cash in on used gum. And who knows what kind of diseases he picked up with chewed up gum from students?
BearsDown Premium Member over 5 years ago
What an educator.
Charlie Fogwhistle over 5 years ago
Pi. What is it about pi that produces so many obsessed people?
comixbomix over 5 years ago
Everyone wants a piece of the pi.
Nighthawks Premium Member over 5 years ago
some folks in Islamabad get a free ride out of town on a U.S military attack-helicopter
brooklyn51 over 5 years ago
In Seattle there’s a wall covered with the chewed gum of past users
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gum_Wall
Stephen Gilberg over 5 years ago
Wow, that blows the European record (Daniel Tammet at 22,514 digits) away.
Petemejia77 over 5 years ago
Might I say, Akira is a HANDSOME MAN.
tuslog64 over 5 years ago
My sister was caught one time chewing gum:“Carol, are you chewing gum?”“(gulp) - No Ma’am!”
Brown Leghorn over 5 years ago
What about the gum placed under tables and theater seats? He could make his own tires!
Nicole™ Premium Member over 5 years ago
At a middle school I used to go to on an air force base in England we had a gum tree. Literally a tree with a trunk covered in old gum from students years before me and probably years after me.
Tarredandfeathered over 5 years ago
Never mind the guy who could Recite that many digits of PI from Memory.How about the person who could Stay Awake long enough to Verify his accuracy ???.
spaced man spliff Premium Member over 5 years ago
That teacher couldn’t do the gum thing in Singapore !!