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January 12, 2024
The town of Codell, Kansas, was hit by a tornado on the same date, May 20, for three consecutive years - 1916, 1917, and 1918.
January 11, 2024
About 500 years ago, the term "bacon" referred to all pork.
January 10, 2024
A small museum in Raeren, Belgium, focuses solely on the humble carrot and is run by the Carrot Cultivator Society.
January 9, 2024
All brooms are hidden away in Norway on Christmas Eve in case they are stolen by witches or evil spirits.
January 8, 2024
During the Great Depression, Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, sometimes accepted potatoes toward tuition payment.
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.
