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January 13, 2021
Frederick Douglass was the most photographed American in the nineteenth century.
January 12, 2021
Tasmanian devils glow under fluorescent light!
January 11, 2021
There used to be beavers the size of bears!
Sunday cartoon! - January 10, 2021
When Kentucky Fried Chicken first opened in China, their "finger lickin' good" slogan was initially translated to "eat your fingers off."
January 9, 2021
Astronaut literally translates to "star sailor."
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.
