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April 11, 2020
Equipped with a chemical process that allows it to heat up, the skunk cabbage can melt snow in order to bloom!
April 10, 2020
The tongue of the hawk moth can grow up to 14 inches long!
April 9, 2020
In 1864, the U.S. Mint introduced a two-cent coin that was in circulation until 1873!
April 8, 2020
Every time you mishear song lyrics or something a person says, you are experiencing "mondegreen"!
April 7, 2020
The first vacuum cleaner was gas-powered and so large that it had to be hauled from house to house by horses!
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.
