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May 5, 2023
The original Apple mouse prototype used a ball from a bottle of roll-on deodorant!
May 4, 2023
Houston, Texas, is the only major U.S. city with no zoning laws.
May 3, 2023
The sound of Darth Vader's heavy breathing is copyrighted!
May 2, 2023
NASA built a wind tunnel in 1965 that could produce speeds of up to Mach 50 - more than 38,000 mph!
May 1, 2023
A black mamba can slither at a speed of 12.5 mph!
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.
