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May 30, 2023
Sugar was only available to the rich in 18th-century England, and it's said that some people would blacken their teeth with coal or other materials to appear wealthier!
May 29, 2023
The Beatles song "Martha My Dear" was named for Paul McCartney's pet sheepdog!
Sunday cartoon! - May 28, 2023
First-born children tend to have a higher IQ than their siblings!
May 27, 2023
Alexander the Great named a city after his horse, Bucephalus!
May 26, 2023
The James Webb Space Telescope could theoretically detect the heat of a bumblebee from more than 300,000 miles away!
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.
