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August 29, 2024
In 2024, a Polish fisherman reeled in an Ice Age mammoth bone!
August 28, 2024
In 2024, Alexander McQueen released $3,000 boots that look like a hoof.
August 27, 2024
The White House's Press Briefing Room was originally a swimming pool.
August 26, 2024
At the heart of each 2024 Olympic and Paralympic medal is an original piece of the Eiffel Tower.
Sunday cartoon! - August 25, 2024
Yoshiharu Watanabe, from Japan, grew a 63-leaf clover.
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.
