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March 3, 2021
Web-footed geckos of the Namib Desert glow fluorescent green in moonlight.
March 2, 2021
Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, created by Agatha Christie, is the only fictional character to have an obituary in the New York Times.
March 1, 2021
A hogshead is a unit of measurement equal to 63 gallons.
Sunday cartoon! - February 28, 2021
Archaeologists in China recently unearthed a 3,000-year-old clay pig that looks like its from the "Angry Birds" game.
February 27, 2021
Carrots are actually bad for rabbits.
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.
