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November 4, 2019
A bolt of lightning contains enough energy to toast 160,000 pieces of bread!
Sunday cartoon! - November 3, 2019
The unique scent you smell when opening a box of new crayons is thanks to the beef fat used in the wax!
November 2, 2019
One of the most popular pizza toppings in Brazil is green peas!
November 1, 2019
Sheep can recognize each other in pictures!
October 31, 2019
While filming "The Wizard of Oz," 16-year-old Judy Garland was put on a diet of chicken soup, coffee and 80 cigarettes a day!
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.
