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July 4, 2023
Loop Biotech, a Dutch startup company, sells mushroom coffins that biodegrade within 45 days of burial!
July 3, 2023
In early drafts of the "Star Wars" script, R2-D2 could speak standard English and had a rather foul vocabulary.
Sunday cartoon! - July 2, 2023
The last great auk, an extinct bird from the British Isles, was killed after it was accused of being a witch.
July 1, 2023
In 2019, there was only 14 Loa water frogs remaining in the wild - all found in a small brown puddle near Calama, Chile.
June 30, 2023
In 2019, John Jepkema of Colorado crossed the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim on foot - at age 91!
Vintage & Historical
The dark history of how nostalgia was understood by early medicine.
A divorcing couple was forced by a judge to split their collection schoolyard pick style.
Animals
One very special two-headed calf survived for 534 days!
Take things to the next level! Ripley’s twentieth edition annual book is full of all-new, all-true stories from around the world.
March 24, 2026
In 2023, king penguin Sir Nils Olav of the Edinburgh Zoo was promoted to Major General Sir Nils Olav III with honors.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.
