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July 3, 2020
Ben Franklin invented swimming fins when he was 11 years old!
July 2, 2020
A shop in Hong Kong offers ice cream that tastes like tear gas.
July 1, 2020
John F. Kennedy was the first U.S. President who was a boy scout as a child.
June 30, 2020
The serpent is a bass wind instrument more than six feet in length and shaped like a snake!
June 29, 2020
Chewbacca's voice was created from recordings of wild animals, including walruses, lions, bears and badgers!
Food
On Independence Day, Americans eat 150 million hot dogs each year!
Places
Florida’s weirdest castle is packed with oddities, illusions, ghost stories, and fun for the whole family!
Vintage & Historical
Step right up and explore the legendary lore of the Fiji Mermaid!
Take things to the next level! Ripley’s twentieth edition annual book is full of all-new, all-true stories from around the world.
July 1, 2026
In 2024, Ken Wilson discovered he’d been paying his neighbor’s electricity bill since 2009!
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.
