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January 27, 2020
Known as Skeleton Lake, Roopkund Lake in the Indian Himalayas is filled with bones from as many as 500 human skeletons!
Sunday cartoon! - January 26, 2020
Champagne was once used as shoe polish. Olga Berluti, a high-end shoe designer, still uses Dom Pérignon to polish her famed shoes!
January 25, 2020
In the U.K., attaching a postage stamp to an envelope upside-down is illegal!
January 24, 2020
The leg bones of bats are so delicate that only two species, the burrowing bat and the vampire bat, are able to walk!
January 23, 2020
Google® was originally named "Backrub"!
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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.
