Putting popularity to the test!
Beating out President Roosevelt, champion boxer Jack Dempsey, Hollywood actor James Cagney, and auto tycoon Henry Ford (to name just a few) in 1936, Robert Ripley was deemed the most popular man in America. He won the majority of votes in a poll taken by the Boys Club of New York, which asked children whom they wanted to be when they grew up.
May 8, 2026
Cartoon of the Day
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.