Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 15, 2023

I think Pete got the nickname from drinking the booze in the bottles not the ship building.

For Bonus Points name the 3 Rivers. For Double Bonus Points name where each of them go.

Triple Divide peak in Glacier National Park in Montana is where the drainages for the Pacific Ocean, Hudson Bay, and Gulf of Mexico all come together. The creeks that flow directly from that mountain are Pacific, Hudson Bay, and Atlantic. Pacific Creek flows into Flathead River which is part of the Columbian River drainage, Hudson Bay Creek flows into the St Mary River which is part of the Saskatchewan River and Lake Winnipeg drainage, and Atlantic Creek flows into Cut Bank Creek which is part of the Missouri/Mississippi River drainage.

I’ve heard of beer can, but, bottle peter, that’s a new one.

Nice facts today, especially the one about the whale

Minnesota has rivers that flow to Hudson Bay, the Gulf of Mexico, and St Louis River / Lake Superior (which eventually works its way to the Atlantic Ocean. Which Minn. county has these three watersheds

They used to call me ‘Bottle Pete’ til I started opening them, now I have this name..

I can drink a quart of milk and gain 200LBS!!

that’s either a big bottle or a little Peter… ;-)

Imagining the life of the lactose intolerant whale…

This explains the dried-out carcasses of adult female Blue whales washing up….

Hudson Bay may be regarded as a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. And the Gulf of Mexico is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean. So, water falling near that triple divide point flow into three different oceans.

The point where the three basins meet in Northwestern Montana is Triple Divide Peak.

There are lesser triple divide points in North America:

Hill of Three Waters near Hibbing, Minnesota, U.S.A. (Hudson Bay (Arctic), Gulf of Mexico (Atlantic), and Atlantic via the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River).

Snow Dome, the border of British Columbia and Alberta, Canada (Pacific, Arctic, Hudson (Arctic)).

It seems to me (insert your own joke here) that ALL water on the surface of the country drains into all the large bodies of water that surround it. Ya think?

200 lbs a day for 365 days is 73,000 lbs. WOW! A full grown blue whale can weigh 350,000 lbs.

Peter Bottle has a better ring.

So a one year old blue whale weighs 73,000 pounds! And I thought I had a weight problem!