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April 21, 2020
The wheelbarrow was developed in China as early as 100 BC - more than 1,000 years before the Europeans.
April 20, 2020
Calculus isn't just math! Mineralized or calcified dental plaque is called calculus.
Sunday cartoon! - April 19, 2020
The chainsaw was invented to help in difficult childbirth - parts of the pelvis would be carved away.
April 18, 2020
Hippos secrete an oily, red substance that acts as a natural sunblock and antiseptic!
April 17, 2020
A baby puffin is called a puffling.
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.
