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August 10, 2021
Lightning strikes earth around 100 times per second.
August 9, 2021
To raise awareness around suicide prevention, Rian Kanouff of Omaha, Nebraska, went skydiving 60 times in 24 hours - naked!
Sunday cartoon! - August 8, 2021
Shanghai, China, woman You Jianxia's longest eyelash reaches 8 inches in length!
August 7, 2021
In February 2021, archaeologists at Pompeii excavated an intact 2,000-year-old ceremonial chariot.
August 6, 2021
In May 2021, a Denver resident spotted a piebald squirrel whose unique pattern is caused by a rare genetic mutation.
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.
