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September 3, 2024
In 2024, Matteo Pavone pulled three planes all while walking on his hands.
September 2, 2024
Americans spend an average of 408 days commuting over a lifetime.
Sunday cartoon! - September 1, 2024
The NYC water supply system leaks on average 20 million gallons a day.
August 31, 2024
The ancient Mayans used quetzal tail feathers as a form of currency.
August 30, 2024
In 2024, engineers used living skin tissue and humanlike ligaments to give robots a more natural smile.
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 14, 2026
Venice was built on wooden piles driven deep into the mud, acting like stilts to support the city.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.
