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December 8, 2020
A zebra's stripes repel insects.
December 7, 2020
The moon landing predates wheeled luggage.
Sunday cartoon! - December 6, 2020
Crocodiles are more closely related to birds than they are to lizards.
December 5, 2020
In the forests of Mount Kaputar, an extinct volcano in Australia, lives a species of 8-inch long, hot pink slugs!
December 4, 2020
Recent evidence suggests early humans in East Africa may have boiled their food in thermal springs long before cooking with fire!
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.
