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Sunday cartoon! - April 30, 2023
The northern cardinal is the most popular state bird, with Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia all picking the species.
April 29, 2023
Marking their territory, hippos spin their tails while defecating to distribute their excrement over a greater area.
April 28, 2023
In 1997, someone impaled a pumpkin on a 173-foot-high spire at Cornell University in the dead of the night.
April 27, 2023
Your stomach would eat itself if it wasn't lined with mucus!
April 26, 2023
Some sharks rest in cuddly piles, kind of like kittens or puppies!
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.
