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Sunday cartoon! - February 21, 2021
The resealable paint can was patented in 1877 by Henry Sherwin.
February 20, 2021
A 26-sided shape is known as a rhombicuboctahedron.
February 19, 2021
The spectral tarsier of Indonesia is barely larger than a tennis ball.
February 18, 2021
The first computer mouse had a wooden casing.
February 17, 2021
Newborn megalodon sharks were bigger than adult humans.
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.
