Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 28, 2020

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    eromlig  over 4 years ago

    No wonder wombats are so grouchy.

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    pearlsbs  over 4 years ago

    The longest rural delivery route is in Sidney, MT. The carrier travels 190.7 miles daily and delivers to 272 boxes.

    https://facts.usps.com/longest-rural-delivery-route/

    The shortest rural delivery route is in Parker, CO. The carrier travels 2.3 miles and delivers to 837 boxes.

    https://facts.usps.com/shortest-rural-delivery-route/

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 4 years ago

    where is that rural 306.9-kilometre mail route in Uncle Sam’s land? somewhere in Alaska I’d bet

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    oompa  over 4 years ago

    So, I had to look that up. According to Patricia Yang, a researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the poop is probably cube shaped because the intestines have two distinct ravine-like grooves, where the intestine is stretchier, which she believes helps shape wombat feces into cubic scat. This is from National Geographic.

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    wmwiii Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Considering the obsession with poop-related factoids lately, I’m wondering if the strip has been taken over by a 7 year-old kid.

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    jimmjonzz Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Pacific dampwood termite poop is produced as eight-faced hexagonal prisms.

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    Kiba65  over 4 years ago

    Who is following these animals around to see the size a shape of it’s poop!!!

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    jimmjonzz Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Hey kids! Fool your friends! On a tray of brownies, randomly distribute wombat poops! Watch the fun!

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    Grumpy Old Guy  over 4 years ago

    The mechanics behind cube shaped poop in general is very perplexing….

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    jpayne4040  over 4 years ago

    If I’m the guy on that route I’d want a little extra on the paycheck. Just saying…

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Lived in Scotland for awhile and saw people who would pull off the road and set up a picnic!

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    James Wolfenstein  over 4 years ago

    cube-shaped craps? :D

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    The Pro from Dover  over 4 years ago

    Hmm… Wombat cubed.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  over 4 years ago

    The wombats in captivity spell things with their doo-doo.

    Take care and gesundheit.

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    Ripplin Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Had a 2004 CR-V from 2009 to 2012 and never once used the picnic table. I’m sure I’m not alone in that. :p

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    AZCoyote  over 4 years ago

    FYI, the postal service uses motor vehicles now.

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    PammWhittaker  over 4 years ago

    “The current longest overland route is Norseman, Western Australia to Border Village, South Australia: 1,460 km (910 mi). The longest air service delivers to remote communities in the outback covering 1,790 km (1,110 mi) over two days.”

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    wsedrel Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Where is this route?

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    drycurt  over 4 years ago

    Honda CRV – another example of decontenting. They also had fold away tray table for the front seat, and the rear seatback could be dropped back to make a bed.

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    Buckeye67  over 4 years ago

    Lately this comic has had too many feature on animal crap and I think it stinks.

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    craigwestlake  over 4 years ago

    Which is why Wombats have a permanent pained look and clenched teeth…

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    shackleford Premium Member over 4 years ago

    What!? Just days before we plan to take our 2003 Honda CR-V to the scrap yard we learn here it has a picnic table. We ran out to the garage to see it for the first time just now. All those camping trips we could used it! All those cluttered picnic tables we could have cleared off!

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    Oxslade  over 4 years ago

    Huh. I read a book about cubed shaped wombat poop.

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