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July 10, 2020
By the end of WWII, the FBI had a physical database of over 10 million fingerprints - the filing cabinets filled an area larger than a football field!
July 9, 2020
No one knows for sure if lobsters feel pain when boiled alive.
July 8, 2020
Although generally associated with Egypt, less than a quarter of the Nile runs through the country.
July 7, 2020
The peregrine falcon can swoop, or dive, at 200 miles per hour, making it the fastest animal in the world!
July 6, 2020
At the height of their popularity, Beanie Babies made up 10% of eBay's sales.
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.
