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July 3, 2023
In early drafts of the "Star Wars" script, R2-D2 could speak standard English and had a rather foul vocabulary.
Sunday cartoon! - July 2, 2023
The last great auk, an extinct bird from the British Isles, was killed after it was accused of being a witch.
July 1, 2023
In 2019, there was only 14 Loa water frogs remaining in the wild - all found in a small brown puddle near Calama, Chile.
June 30, 2023
In 2019, John Jepkema of Colorado crossed the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim on foot - at age 91!
June 29, 2023
Ants release a chemical when they die that directs other ants to dispose of the corpse.
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 15, 2026
Passengers at a Lithuanian train station are greeted by a 15-foot-tall statue of Tony Soprano.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.
