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October 5, 2019
Thomas Edison invented the first tattoo pen!
October 4, 2019
Alfred Hitchcock once stated that he was so terrified by his own movies that he would never watch them!
October 3, 2019
Most fruit bats have excellent vision and do not use echolocation!
October 2, 2019
In June 2003, a hailstone the size of a bowling ball - 7 inches in diameter - fell in Nebraska!
October 1, 2019
Airport pizza in Nome, Alaska, delivers pizza to customers by plane!
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.
