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May 29, 2023
The Beatles song "Martha My Dear" was named for Paul McCartney's pet sheepdog!
Sunday cartoon! - May 28, 2023
First-born children tend to have a higher IQ than their siblings!
May 27, 2023
Alexander the Great named a city after his horse, Bucephalus!
May 26, 2023
The James Webb Space Telescope could theoretically detect the heat of a bumblebee from more than 300,000 miles away!
May 25, 2023
A swaying hammock is likely to produce a deeper sleep than a stationary bed.
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.
