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January 27, 2020
Known as Skeleton Lake, Roopkund Lake in the Indian Himalayas is filled with bones from as many as 500 human skeletons!
Sunday cartoon! - January 26, 2020
Champagne was once used as shoe polish. Olga Berluti, a high-end shoe designer, still uses Dom Pérignon to polish her famed shoes!
January 25, 2020
In the U.K., attaching a postage stamp to an envelope upside-down is illegal!
January 24, 2020
The leg bones of bats are so delicate that only two species, the burrowing bat and the vampire bat, are able to walk!
January 23, 2020
Google® was originally named "Backrub"!
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.
