Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 17, 2014
Transcript:
Pup stop! The Spanish town of El Vendrell has introduced public toilets for dogs! Rejaul Mondal has a kitchen in India and a bedroom in Bangladesh, as his house straddles the border between the two countries- and he pays taxes in both! Reindeer eyes change color from gold to blue and back again over the course of the year to improve their vision in the dim winter light.
Templo S.U.D. almost 10 years ago
You’re an interesting fellow, Mr. Mondal. How do you even write your address? Do you even have a passport?
barefoottech almost 10 years ago
India and Bangladesh has very interesting borders. A geopolitical curiosity is that there are 92 Bangladeshi exclaves, with a total area of 47.7 km² in Cooch-Behar. Similarly, there are 106 Indian exclaves inside Bangladesh, with a total area of 69.5 km². There is even a couple of enclaves of India which are inside an enclave of Bangladesh that is in India. There are a large number of instances where the border goes straight through a house. Similiar things occur in other parts of the world. Even the US State of Minnesota has a small part inside Canada on the northern west side of Lake Superior.
Space_cat almost 10 years ago
This could get a bit sticky, you walk from the kitchen to the living room with a beer from the fridge.An honest man will do the 35 minutes of import paperworkThe dishonest man will risk being arrested for illegally importing liquor..
Blakdanielle almost 10 years ago
Point Roberts in WashingtonState is a similar example. It is completely surrounded by British Columbia.
A geopolitical oddity, Point Roberts is a part of the mainland United States but is not physically connected to it, making it a pene-exclave of the U.S.
english.ann almost 10 years ago
Barefoottech,I guess “exclave” is the term for Lesotho and Swaziland, since these two countries are entirely inside the Republic of South Africa; two countries inside a third country.