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February 21, 2020
Boise, Idaho, celebrates the new year by dropping a 16-foot-tall steel and foam potato in front of the state capitol!
February 20, 2020
Cologne and perfume were used as protection against the plague because it was believed bad-smelling air spread disease!
February 19, 2020
The CIA uses board games to train its officers!
February 18, 2020
During earthquakes, water vaporizes inside faults, turning it to gold!
February 17, 2020
The waterwheel plant is an aquatic version of the Venus flytrap - it eats mosquito larvae, eelworms and small crustaceans.
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.
