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December 31, 2021
State Route 240 near West Richland, Washington, was closed for 10 hours on New Year's Day 2020, after cars were trapped by piles of tumbleweeds reaching 30 feet high.
December 30, 2021
The Pacific lingcod loses and regrows about 20 of its more than 500 teeth every day!
December 29, 2021
English gymnast Ashley Watson performed a backflip while propelling himself more than 19 feet between two horizontal bars.
December 28, 2021
The Fresno Mission in California collected 80,000 socks and, before donating them to the homeless, created a line of socks measuring 7.39 miles long!
December 27, 2021
Bryan Webb of Gloucester, England, worked at the same company, Vauxhall, for 75 years.
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.
Sunday Cartoon! - August 16, 2026
In 2025, a Texas pickleball team called The Pickle Breakers played pickleball nonstop for 36 hours.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.
