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February 1, 2020
Upper-class women in early 19th-century Greece often used empty pistachio shells as artificial fingernails!
January 31, 2020
Lungs are the only organs of the human body that can float in water!
January 30, 2020
Until 1967, it was illegal for actors to wear a postal worker's uniform on stage or in movies!
January 29, 2020
Skateboards were banned in Norway between 1978 and 1989!
January 28, 2020
Mountain Dew, a nickname for moonshine, was originally created in Tennessee as a whiskey accompaniment!
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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.
