Ripley's Believe It or Not! : Truth Is Stranger Than Friction! (Part 2)

As what i promised, here is the second part of the Ripley's Believe It or Not!. Are you ready for more interesting things? Here you go. Enjoy reading!

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#1- The Gold Plated Coin Covered Car: Covered with more than 20,000, 24 karat gold plated canadian pennies. This amazing vehicle is the handwork of Ken Berkett, Niagara Falls, Canada. Although impractical because of its value, this car is completely operational.

#2- The Leaning Books: I still wonder how the book can be arranged in this way? Can someone tell me the answer? Impressed!

#3 & #4- Had fun while playing with the effect of mirrors. I looked funny in the mirror, right?

#5- Another theme of decoration in the museum. Seriously i get scared by this giant shark.

#6-The World's Greatest Fake: F.T Barnum once exhibited this curiosity, as a genuine "Fiji Mermaid". In 1842, thousands of people paid 25 cents to see this. Ripley discovered the "Mermaid" was a combination of the upper half of a monkey and lower half of a fish!

#7-The Giant "Man Eating Clam": Although the Tridacna Gigas Clam grows big enough to trap a man's arm or leg, it does not eat people as its nickname implies. Growing up to 5 feet long, and weighing over 600 pounds, natives on Moluccas Archipelago use the shells as children's bathtubs.

#8-The Fox and The Shark: In 1963, spear fisherman Rodney Fox of Australia was attacked and severely injured by a giant Great White Shark. All ribs were broken and he needed 465 stitches to repair his torso and his hand!

#9- Siamese Pig: Believe It Or Not! These conjoined twin pig born in England in the 1990, just have one backbone.

#10- Gum Wrapper Chain: Created in the the 1960's by Linda LeValley of Michigan. This 326.8" chewing gum wrapper chain made from 7,840 wrappers required over 2,800 man-hours to built and represents over $7,000 worth of gum.

#11- Bread Painting: The painting displayed here, a replica of Paul Cezanne's masterpiece."The Blue Vase" was created in a toaster from 56 pieces of ordinary white bread! Completed in 1985, "the blue vase" is the one of over 40 depictions of famous painting created by Tadahiko Ogawa of Kyoto, Japan.

#12- Girl On A Swing Stamp Painting: This magnificent picture of a girl on swing was made from over 5,000 ordinary postage stamps. Created by James Butman of Massachusetts, as therapy for his agoraphobia, the abnormal fear of public places. It took nearly two years to complete and represents over $1,000 worth of stamps.

#13- Toothpick Armchair: This chair made by Joe King of California, USA, from over 5,000 toothpicks, weighs only 4 pounds, yet will hold a ton-2,000 pounds of bricks!

#14- Antique Cash Register: This antique 19th century silver cash register from the American West acquired by Ripley in the 1930s.

#15- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Visi-Vision Machine: Created by Enlgish inventor Rowland Emett, the Visi-Vision machine is part television, part music box, and part sewing machine. Made for the 1960s movie, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the Visi-Vision Machine was designed to show a television- like image accompanied by music and was just one of the wacky labour saving inventions the movie's family used in their futuristic home.

#16- The walls were designed with many types of cartoons which it explained about many interesting things.

#17- The entrance of Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum.

Let us escape from the ordinary and step into the world of Ripley's Believe It Or Not! where "truth is stranger than fiction". It is featuring with all kinds of shockingly odd things, and all things unbelievable but 100% true. You'll be amazed!

Best Regards, 

Beverly.