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Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 12, 2016
July 11, 2016
July 13, 2016
Transcript:
Lone villager! Liu Shengjia has lived alone in the abandoned village of Xuenshanshe, China, for 10 years! July 4, 2016, planet Earth was over 3,100,000 miles farther from the sun than it was on January 2. Small fry! Sinarapan, the smallest fish eaten his food, are only found in the Philippines and are considered a local delicacy!
Templo S.U.D. almost 7 years ago
Now how come I didn’t get notice last week about the Earth being that far away from the sun?
Bilan almost 7 years ago
We keep trying to go where no man has gone before, but gravity says otherwise.
linsonl almost 7 years ago
Earth’s orbit around the sun is not a perfect circle. Always been that way, and will be for at least another billion years, give or take a few million.
PMark almost 7 years ago
I take it then that July 4 is the apogee and January 2 is the perigee of Earth’s orbit around the Sun?
Chad Cheetah almost 7 years ago
Earth’s gaining its independence
CeeJay almost 7 years ago
An entire village to himself ! Lucky guy.
Dean almost 7 years ago
This is why summer (northern hemisphere) is longer than winter. If you get out your calendar and count the days you will see this is so.
coffeeturtle almost 7 years ago
“I’ll be back!”—Earth
Petemejia77 almost 7 years ago
Liu looks like he’s in the Matrix!
dirkzorn almost 7 years ago
Boning those little fish must be murder.
Stephen Gilberg almost 7 years ago
The smallest fish eaten as food by humans, you mean. And the “as food” part seems redundant.
Brown Leghorn almost 7 years ago
Some special skill cleaning them miniture fish, huh?
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr almost 7 years ago
So why is it warmer when we’re further away?
Petemejia77 almost 7 years ago
Whole empty cities?Sounds lovely! :)