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February 23, 2026
Dogs have been banned from Antarctica since 1994!
Sunday cartoon! - February 22, 2026
Koala fingerprints are almost identical to those of humans.
February 21, 2026
The British Library ironed their newspapers by hand before they were microfilmed.
February 20, 2026
Tokyo construction company Taisei Corp. invented a drone to monitor its workers to avoid karoshi, or "overwork death."
February 19, 2026
California is the only state to have hosted both the Summer and Winter Olympics!
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.
