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Sunday cartoon! - March 16, 2025
Hot Springs, Arkansas, is home to the world's shortest St. Patrick's Day parade - a mere 98 feet long!
March 15, 2025
No number before 1,000 contains the letter A.
March 14, 2025
The Colosseum was lined with sand to absorb blood. The Latin word for sand, "harena," gave rise to the modern term arena.
March 13, 2025
Over a period of 45 years, Beethoven composed a total of 722 pieces of music!
March 12, 2025
The Galápagos marine iguana is the only lizard in the world that feeds in the ocean.
Art & Fashion
Meet the "Fish-Caster," a custom Telecaster with a real, preserved piranha sealed in resin!
Food
A hungover stockbroker, a lust-fighting minister, and a maître d' whose cook went missing—meet the real people hiding on your menu.
People
A dad from Riverside, Illinois, spent 130 hours turning wine corks into a wearable flotation suit!
Take things to the next level! Ripley’s twentieth edition annual book is full of all-new, all-true stories from around the world.
August 13, 2026
In 1980, Minoru Yoshida completed 10,507 nonstop push-ups.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.
