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August 13, 2021
The Super Soaker water gun was invented by a NASA engineer, Dr. Lonnie Johnson.
August 12, 2021
There is water on the moon.
August 11, 2021
President Calvin Coolidge owned two lion cubs named Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau.
August 10, 2021
Lightning strikes earth around 100 times per second.
August 9, 2021
To raise awareness around suicide prevention, Rian Kanouff of Omaha, Nebraska, went skydiving 60 times in 24 hours - naked!
Animals
From 'Ace Ventura' to the Ripley's collection!
Vintage & Historical
The dark history of how nostalgia was understood by early medicine.
A divorcing couple was forced by a judge to split their collection schoolyard-pick style.
Take things to the next level! Ripley’s twentieth edition annual book is full of all-new, all-true stories from around the world.
March 27, 2026
The first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929 lasted only 15 minutes.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.
