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February 28, 2026
The first oranges, from Southeast Asia, were not orange - they were green!
February 27, 2026
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore were roommates in college.
February 26, 2026
A 7-Eleven in Monterrey, Mexico, has a tree growing in the middle of it.
February 25, 2026
Bees can recognize and differentiate between human faces!
February 24, 2026
When Superman was first introduced in 1938, he couldn't fly.
Art & Fashion
Meet the "Fish-Caster" a custom Telecaster with a real preserved piranha sealed in blue 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 12, 2026
A California library hosted “Lucha Libro,” a wrestling-themed story time featuring fights among the bookshelves.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.
