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   RS Wood  wrote:   
   > On 2015-08-20, cazza13    
   wrote:   
   >> If you don't like rats, you might want to sit down for this -- but   
   >> maybe don't sit on the toilet.   
   >>   
   >> Intrigued by the question of how rats make it into toilet bowls (and   
   >> yes, it does happen), National Geographic put together this brief   
   >> video tracing the rodents' paths from street to sewer, sewer to indoor   
   >> plumbing and, ultimately, into the toilet. Perhaps the most incredible   
   >> part is how easily a rat can navigate the sharp 180-degree U-turn   
   >> within the actual toilet pipes, all while underwater.   
   >   
   > Good one!  This belongs in sci.misc if ever an article did.  This counts   
   > as true science important to the wellbeing of humankind!   
   >   
   > I have a friend who once sat on a latrine only to have dozens of bats   
   > pour forth from between her legs.  Turns out the latrine was home to a   
   > nest of bats who enjoyed the dark, cool respite.  To say my friend then   
   > promptly 'freaked out' would be an understatement.   
      
   How did she not notice the colony of bats roosting in the toilet bowl   
   before she sat down?   
      
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