Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 14, 2015

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    SpaceBuckaroo  about 9 years ago

    I’m guessing the letter sat in someones attic for most of that time.

    That matchstick train has wings.

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 9 years ago

    Alice Otterloop of “Cul de Sac” would not believe that factoid about her favorite animal the pangolin. As for that piece of mail, why did it take almost three centuries to be delivered?

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    MJKesquire  about 9 years ago

    Just an engine does not make up a train.The first steam engine I ever saw that had wings!!

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    derdave969  about 9 years ago

    Back in the early 70’s I read in the New Haven, CT paper that mail from the 50’s (if I remember correctly) was being delivered in the local area. Seems there was a mail robbery and the crooks dumped the items they didn’t want in the harbor. Someone dredged them up and the USPS dried them out, stuck them in glassine bags with a note of apology for the delay in delivery and delivered them. With the German example I guess I’m more surprised that the address still existed (though the item does not make it clear if it was address or recipient that was correct).

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    therese_callahan2002  about 9 years ago

    Shouldn’t that be a snail instead of a turtle?

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    therese_callahan2002  about 9 years ago

    I think I’ll play “Pictures Of Matchstick Men” on my CD player.

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    Neo Stryder  about 9 years ago

    IS that a train or Robur’s Spectre.

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    comixbomix  about 9 years ago

    Hope he has fire insurance…

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    Ermine Notyours  about 9 years ago

    When I worked at the post office, sometimes when I picked up a supposedly empty bag, I would find months delayed mail in them, to and from completely different parts of the country from where I worked.

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    Peam Premium Member about 9 years ago

    Long tongues are perfect for Halloween treats.

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    boldyuma  about 9 years ago

    Tortoise are amazing animalsWe had one that probably was over 10 years old..Dis-appeared from a enclosed backyard with a fence back in 1968..Showed up again under our deck in 1976..

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    english.ann  about 9 years ago

    A pangolin is a scaly anteater.

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    benbrilling  about 9 years ago

    I had a friend who found an undelivered letter under a fold in his old mailbag years after he changed jobs. He wasn’t so conscientious, he threw it in the trash.

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