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Sunday cartoon! - July 5, 2020
The Karni Mata Temple in Deshnoke, India, is home to 20,000 rats believed to be reincarnations of storytellers.
July 4, 2020
Flamingo tongues were considered a delicacy among the ancient Roman elite!
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.
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.
