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In 2012, a composite parody of Ripley's Believe It or Not! and Guinness World Records dubbed The Guinness O'Ripley Enormous Book of Curiosities, Oddities, and World Records served as the focus of the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Squirrel Record", in which the title character assists his friend Sandy Cheeks in breaking the records within.
Guinness World Records Attractions; Louis Tussaud's Wax Museums: In the summer of 2004, Ripley's bought the Palace of Wax museum in Grand Prairie, Texas, rebranding it as the United States' first Tussauds'. Ripley's Aquarium of Canada - Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Ripley's Aquarium of Myrtle Beach - Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, U.S.
Ripley's Odditorium in Hollywood. LeRoy Robert Ripley (February 22, 1890 – May 27, 1949) [1] was an American cartoonist, entrepreneur, and amateur anthropologist, who is known for creating the Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series, television show, and radio show, which feature odd facts from around the world.
East of the Palisades fire, the Eaton fire consumed areas of Altadena, including Altadena's Bunny Museum. The landmark, which has been featured in Guinness World Records, Ripley's Believe it or ...
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
It follows a record keeper for The Book of Records who discovers a farmer attempting to woo a woman by gradually eating a Boeing 747. [14] [15] The novel was heavily inspired by The Guinness Book of World Records; Sherwood interviewed Lotito via telephone as part of his research. [6] [12]
After weeks of interviewing people who had lived in Livermore all their lives, he wrote "Light Bulb May Be World's Oldest", published in the Tri-Valley Herald. Dunstan contacted the Guinness Book of World Records, Ripley's Believe It or Not, and General Electric, who all confirmed it as the longest-lasting bulb known in existence. [14]
Guinness World Records is unable to verify the length of Wedders' nose as he died before the invention of the camera. A wax reproduction of his head is in the Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum in London. [4] In 1896, The Strand Magazine elaborated: [5]