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.
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.