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June 1, 2021
Leah Shutkever, a competitive eater from the U.K., holds a whopping 20 world records for her "fast food" antics, including the most jam doughnuts eaten in three minutes (10) and fastest time to eat three pickled eggs (7.8 seconds).
May 31, 2021
The first animal purchased for Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo was a bear cub for $10 in 1874.
Sunday cartoon! - May 30, 2021
Cows kill approximately 20 Americans each year.
May 29, 2021
There are no muscles in your fingers!
May 28, 2021
Nine-banded armadillos almost always give birth to identical quadruplets of the same sex.
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.
