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December 21, 2021
In October 2021, Merriam-Webster added 455 new words to its dictionary, including fluffernutter, oobleck, dad bod, and TBH.
December 20, 2021
A U.S. submarine collided with an uncharted mountain on the South China sea floor on October 2, 2021, causing minor injuries to 11 crewmembers.
Sunday cartoon! - December 19, 2021
In 1964, Ernest Hemingway's brother, Leicester, founded his own nation in international waters on an 8-by-30-foot raft he dubbed New Atlantis.
December 18, 2021
A missing apostrophe in a Facebook post landed an Australian real estate agent in defamation court.
December 17, 2021
PepsiCo - the soda manufacturer - was once the sixth-largest military in the world.
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.
