In 1997, Ripley Entertainment took its biggest step toward branching into more forms of family entertainment with the opening of the first Ripley’s Aquarium in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies (2000) and Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada (2013) soon followed!
November 11, 2026
Tire machèt is a Haitian fencing sport in which competitors wield machetes.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated daily cartoon. Howie Noel is the ninth artist in over a century to take up the pen as lead Cartoonist.