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December 28, 2019
Rhubarb leaves contain oxalic acid and can kill you if consumed in large doses!
December 27, 2019
A single snow crab sold for a shell-shocking $46,000 at auction in Tottori, Japan, on November 7, 2019.
December 26, 2019
The Whiskey River Soap Company sells a grape-scented candle labeled "The Middle Child Largely Invisible Scent."
December 25, 2019
In 2006, William Shatner sold his kidney stone for U.S. $25,000 and donated all of the money to Habitat for Humanity.
December 24, 2019
Believe It or Not!, Christmas trees are grown in all 50 U.S. states!
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.
