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October 10, 2019
During the 1800s in the United States, it was considered "cruel and unusual punishment" to feed inmates lobster!
October 9, 2019
There are 10 different ways to pronounce the letter sequence "ough"!
October 8, 2019
Crocodiles lose salt through their tongues!
October 7, 2019
Lethologica is the word used to describe the phenomenon of forgetting a word!
Sunday cartoon! - October 6, 2019
In ancient Egypt, servants were covered in honey to keep flies away from the pharaoh!
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.
