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Sunday cartoon! - September 13, 2020
In May 2020, the world's largest all-electric airplane made its first flight, staying in the air for 28 minutes.
September 12, 2020
The ThighMaster and mood ring were invented by the same person: Josh Reynolds.
September 11, 2020
Old West outlaw Jesse James has two graves.
September 10, 2020
Marie Antoinette never said "Let them eat cake."
September 9, 2020
Leonardo da Vinci's last statue - a 24-foot-high bronze sculpture of a horse - took over 500 years to complete.
People
One photo from 1958 sent Bekah Burke up onto a row of champagne bottles!
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.
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.
