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June 10, 2022
The Deepwater Horizon oil disasters of 2010 led to the deaths of up to 8.3 oysters.
June 9, 2022
Using old public telescope images, amateur astronomer Kai Ly found four of Jupiter's "lost" moons, plus one that was previously unknown to science!
June 8, 2022
About 14 percent of the world's reptile population lives in Australia!
June 7, 2022
Mulberry silkworms are completely domesticated, with the species no longer being found in the wild.
June 6, 2022
New England physicist Percy Spencer received $2 for his patent of the microwave oven!
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.
