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October 14, 2023
A Canadian court ruled the thumbs-up emoji a legally valid form of signature in a contract.
October 13, 2023
Thailand's "Temple of a Million Bottles" is made of over 1.5 million empty beer bottles.
October 12, 2023
A newborn panda cub is typically around 1/900th the size of its mother!
October 11, 2023
When disturbed, death's-head hawk moths use their pharynx to emit loud, high-pitched screeches!
October 10, 2023
A cloud of flour could blow up a bread factory!
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.
