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December 30, 2025
On New Year's Eve the town of Eastover, North Carolina, drops a giant flea instead of a ball.
December 29, 2025
The original Hollywood(land) sign boasted 4,000 light bulbs!
Sunday cartoon! - December 28, 2025
Ferret-legging was an endurance test in which contestants would put a live ferret down their pants.
December 27, 2025
Manta rays have the largest brain-to-body ratio of all fish.
December 26, 2025
In 2025, a 416-year-old grapevine was discovered in Tibet's mountains!
Art & Fashion
Meet the "Fish-Caster" a custom Telecaster with a real preserved piranha sealed in blue 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.
People
A dad from Riverside, Illinois, spent 130 hours turning wine corks into a wearable flotation suit!
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 12, 2026
A California library hosted “Lucha Libro,” a wrestling-themed story time featuring fights among the bookshelves.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.
