Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 06, 2017

Okay… I’m at a loss about the NK/Norway bit.

Banyan trees have runners that will keep spreading out and forming new roots if they’re not kept in check.

Don’t believe it! I can’t walk that far.

I’ll bet they tore that tree down to build a Wal Mart

The extreme eastern end of North Korea’s northern border is with Russia. The common border is only about ten miles long.

If you can get out of North Korea alive.

And if the Bering Strait is frozen over, you can walk from North Korea to the US by crossing only one country. Russia is huge!

Yes you can walk from North Korea to Norway by way of Russia but it’s a hell of a trip.

Pretty much everyone is your 16th cousin or closer.

I like to imagine jogging from Cape Horn to Alaska, swimming across the Bering Strait, and jogging to the Cape of Good Hope.

We are all very closely related, more so than previously thought.

for cryin out loud, anybody who has a drop of British blood (me included) could claim that. I’m 1/4 British Isles, so I could be related to Doyle and James Joyce!