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January 23, 2021
Red pandas have no living relatives.
January 22, 2021
On this day 50 years ago, the lowest temperature ever recorded in the USA: -80°F (-62°C), in Prospect Creek, Alaska.
January 21, 2021
In 2019, Fair Haven, Vermont, elected a goat named Lincoln as honorary mayor!
January 20, 2021
Human babies are about the same percentage of water as a banana.
January 19, 2021
Despite their size, ladybugs emit a strong, unique smell that humans can easily identify.
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.
August 17, 2026
The University of Applied Arts Vienna allowed an AI named “Flynn” to enroll as a full-time digital art student.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.
