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November 9, 2019
A single giant sequoia tree can consume up to 500 gallons of water in just one day!
November 8, 2019
A rat can tread water for three days and survive being flushed down the toilet!
November 7, 2019
The proper name for the infinity symbol? Lemniscate!
November 6, 2019
Ancient Egyptians used burnt almonds as makeup to fill in their eyebrows!
November 5, 2019
Natiform is when the shape of something resembles a butt!
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 18, 2026
Katie Barden and Erin New's Snapchat streak is more than 4,203 days — over 11 years!
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.
