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August 30, 2023
Bold jumping spiders will literally go blind with hunger - talk about getting hangry!
August 29, 2023
In May 2023, Suzy Kop of Hopewell Township, New Jersey, found - after it smashed through her home's roof - a 4.56-billion-year-old, potato-sized meteorite.
August 28, 2023
Starbucks uses round tables in its cafes to make solo coffee drinkers feel welcomed and less lonely.
Sunday cartoon! - August 27, 2023
Fekru Hirpo of Alexandria, Virginia, played the same numbers on 20 lottery tickets and won 20 times for a total prize of $100,000!
August 26, 2023
In "The Wizard of Oz" film, the Tin Man cried chocolate syrup instead of real oil.
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.
