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May 27, 2021
Recycling Retriever! Tubby the Labrador of Wales picked up approximately 26,000 plastic bottles during his daily walks.
May 26, 2021
The American Society For Microbiology holds an annual "Agar Art" contest, in which participants create drawings on petri dishes using microbes!
May 25, 2021
This spring, billions of cicadas known as Brood X, emerged from their underground ecosystems, swarming 15 states east of the Mississippi River.
May 24, 2021
No new players were voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2021.
Sunday cartoon! - May 23, 2021
When lightning hits the ground, it can fuse sand and clay into fulgurites - hollow, glasslike tubes that resemble solid lightning!
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.
