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May 1, 2020
Unlike adults, babies can swallow and breathe at the same time.
April 30, 2020
A midden is an archaeological garbage pit that contains seeds, shells, bones or leaves - often left behind by rodents.
April 29, 2020
Native to Panama and tropical South America, the douroucouli is the only true nocturnal monkey!
April 28, 2020
Barra Airport in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland is just a stretch of beach accessible only when the tide is out!
April 27, 2020
The state of Michigan is bigger than the entirety of Great Britain.
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.
