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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!
April 25, 2023
After the 2004 tsunami in Kenya, a tortoise "adopted" an orphaned baby hippo!
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.
