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May 21, 2020
Barnesville, Minnesota, is home to the annual Potato Days Festival which includes mashed potato wrestling!
May 20, 2020
After a technical fault at the Cantina Settecani winery in Modena, Italy, red wine flowed through the taps of nearby homes!
May 19, 2020
In 2011, it was reported that an ancient river 2.4 miles underneath the Amazon River had been discovered.
May 18, 2020
Scientists can't agree on why humans cry.
Sunday cartoon! - May 17, 2020
Contrary to popular belief, owls can rotate their head a maximum of 270 degrees - not 360 degrees.
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.
