In 2016, Ripley’s bought Marilyn Monroe’s “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” dress at auction for a record $4.8 million. The iconic dress was famously worn by Monroe on May 19, 1962, when she sang to President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden. 60 years later, Kim Kardashian added to the pop culture significance of Monroe’s iconic dress by wearing it to the 2022 Met Gala.
May 8, 2026
The town of Kyle in Saskatchewan, Canada, faced a hiccup in the run-up to its November 2024 municipal election: no one ran for mayor.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.