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Sunday cartoon! - June 30, 2024
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau once worked as a snowboard instructor.
June 29, 2024
In 1954, in a letter to a magazine, Albert Einstein admitted to wanting to be a plumber.
June 28, 2024
There is a small carving of a "dinosaur" on the walls of a temple at Ta Prohm in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
June 27, 2024
Large orb-weaving spiders, like those in the genus Nephila, are known to catch and eat bats.
June 26, 2024
Urine mixed with chlorine creates chemicals that make your eyes red and itchy.
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.