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August 8, 2025
The majority of a dragonfly's life is spent in the nymph stage, living underwater.
August 7, 2025
Since July 2, 2025, we are officially closer to 2050 than to 2000.
August 6, 2025
New York City is now classified as having a humid subtropical climate.
August 5, 2025
In 2020, a tadpole fossil was discovered in Argentina that dates back at least 161 million years!
August 4, 2025
Before Simon Cowell became a music mogul, he worked as a runner on the set of "The Shining."
Art & Fashion
Meet the "Fish-Caster" a custom Telecaster with a real preserved piranha sealed in blue 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.
People
A dad from Riverside, Illinois, spent 130 hours turning wine corks into a wearable flotation suit!
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 13, 2026
In 1980, Minoru Yoshida completed 10,507 nonstop push-ups.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.
