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August 24, 2020
Nyctophobia is an extreme fear of the dark.
Sunday cartoon! - August 23, 2020
Introduced in 1930, the Snickers bar was named after the Mars family's favorite horse.
August 22, 2020
Poet T. S. Eliot would often wear green makeup.
August 21, 2020
Mark Clark of Michigan won $4 million on a scratch-off lottery ticket - twice! Once in 2017 and again in 2020.
August 20, 2020
German company Babymop sells onesies for babies that are claimed to help mop the floor as the child crawls around.
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.
