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August 20, 2021
In Norway, "Texas" is used as slang for "wild" or "outrageous."
August 19, 2021
Lightning can strike more than 100 million times per year in the tropics.
August 18, 2021
In 1896, William McKinley became the first U.S. presidential candidate to use the telephone for campaigning.
August 17, 2021
Burlington High School in Vermont is located inside of a former Macy's store, complete with escalators.
August 16, 2021
When sea turtles lay their eggs, they actually create decoy nests to fool predators!
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.
