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May 26, 2022
The average person in the Netherlands gets 8 hours and 5 minutes of sleep per night.
May 25, 2022
Sperm whales only have teeth on their lower jaw - their upper jaw contains sockets the teeth fit into.
May 24, 2022
Trilobites living up to 541 million years ago in what is now Australia may have been the first-ever cannibals.
May 23, 2022
Whales can have regional dialects.
Sunday cartoon! - May 22, 2022
The fear of long words is called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
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.
