MINI BELIEVE IT OR NOT –

In June of 2014, the government of La Paz, Bolivia ordered that the numbers on the clock on the congress building be reversed.

  • The hands turn to the left, and the numbers were inverted
  • Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca dubbed it the “clock of the south”
  • The clock was made to show Bolivian people that it’s good to be creative and question norms
  • The government has said that they will not require everyone in Bolivia to change their clocks

MINI BION

“BIONs” – short for Believe It or Not – is the word we use at Ripley’s to refer to anything that is unbelievable and worthy to become part of Ripley’s lore and collection.