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July 20, 2024
Peeps used to have wings, but they were removed in 1955.
July 19, 2024
Black holes come in three sizes: stellar-mass, supermassive and intermediate-mass.
July 18, 2024
Bees are known to nap on and off between 5 and 8 hours daily, sometimes resting in flowers!
July 17, 2024
Giant mirrors reflect light into Viganella, Italy, which is situated inside a valley.
July 16, 2024
The blue-tongued skink uses its large blue tongue to scare off predators.
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.
