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March 12, 2020
In Mexico City, street vendors offer passersby a game of "toques," where you pay to receive an electric shock!
March 11, 2020
In the 1950s and 1960s, automakers sold dashboard record players for cars.
March 10, 2020
On his WWI draft card, Harry Houdini listed his middle name as "Handcuff"!
March 9, 2020
In the 17th century, Catholics circumvented not eating meat during Lent by claiming the semi-aquatic beaver was a fish!
Sunday cartoon! - March 8, 2020
Celebrated annually in Hong Kong, competitors at the Cheung Chau Bun Festival scale 60-foot towers of stacked plastic sweet buns!
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This mask tells a story centuries in the making!
Take things to the next level! Ripley’s twentieth edition annual book is full of all-new, all-true stories from around the world.
May 14, 2026
Some parents in the U.S. claim their children started to speak in a British accent after watching the "Peppa Pig" TV show!
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.
