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February 1, 2020
Upper-class women in early 19th-century Greece often used empty pistachio shells as artificial fingernails!
January 31, 2020
Lungs are the only organs of the human body that can float in water!
January 30, 2020
Until 1967, it was illegal for actors to wear a postal worker's uniform on stage or in movies!
January 29, 2020
Skateboards were banned in Norway between 1978 and 1989!
January 28, 2020
Mountain Dew, a nickname for moonshine, was originally created in Tennessee as a whiskey accompaniment!
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.
