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December 3, 2020
In October 2020, Lewis Kirkbride marched through the English countryside some 300 miles while wearing medieval armor!
December 2, 2020
Former samurai were among the first to cultivate apples in Japan.
December 1, 2020
In Hidalgo, Texas, there is a statue of a killer bee that weighs 2,000 pounds!
November 30, 2020
There is no conclusive evidence that Betsy Ross designed the first U.S. flag.
Sunday cartoon! - November 29, 2020
The abandoned fishing village Houtouwan in the Shengsi Islands of China became completely overgrown with ivy and vegetation.
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.
