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September 9, 2021
U.S. Air Force test pilot Robert M. White was the first person to fly faster than Mach 4.5 and 6 - more than 4,000 miles per hour!
September 8, 2021
Researchers in Malaysia are working on technology that could allow people to send scents the way we now send texts and emails.
September 7, 2021
In October 2020, Ruan Liangming of Yichun City, China, successfully covered his body with more than 140 pounds of bees!
September 6, 2021
A 500-year-old wax sculpture created by Renaissance artist Michelangelo appears to include one of the artist's thumb- or fingerprints!
Sunday cartoon! - September 5, 2021
In Uruguay, cattle outnumber humans nearly 4-to-1!
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.
