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When Muhammad Ali Tried to Reunite the Beatles

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Tails From the Crypt Told at the Rotterdam Natural History Museum
Animals
Ripley's Believe It or Not!

Tails From the Crypt Told at the Rotterdam Natural History Museum

Stuffed animals and the stories behind how they died.

The Limelight That Lit the Swedish Nightingale
People
Colton Kruse

The Limelight That Lit the Swedish Nightingale

Not lime the fruit...

The Rare and Deadly Sawfish Rostrum
Animals
Colton Kruse

The Rare and Deadly Sawfish Rostrum

They're known to cleave fish in two!

Zerelda James, An Unbelievable Case of Motherly Love
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Sabrina Sieck

Zerelda James, An Unbelievable Case of Motherly Love

Grieving the James family way.

Wilbur D. May’s Cabinet of Curiosities, Inside the Wunderkammer
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Engrid Barnett

Wilbur D. May’s Cabinet of Curiosities, Inside the Wunderkammer

From Egyptian funerary objects to a shrunken head this Wunderkammer delivers spine-tingling finds…

This Jewelry Contains the Hair of Abraham Lincoln
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Colton Kruse

This Jewelry Contains the Hair of Abraham Lincoln

The surgeon took the blood-stained locks from the dead president's head.

Ripley's Owns Han Solo's Blaster!
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Colton Kruse

Ripley's Owns Han Solo's Blaster!

Unfortunately the Blaster won't tell us who shot first.

The Dionne Quintuplets Spent Their Childhood on Display at Quintland
People
Ripley's Believe It or Not!

The Dionne Quintuplets Spent Their Childhood on Display at Quintland

Dolls of the girls outsold Shirley Temple.

Saint Patrick Didn't Drive the Snakes Out of Ireland, Climate Change Did
Science & Technology
Colton Kruse

Saint Patrick Didn't Drive the Snakes Out of Ireland, Climate Change Did

He was also born in Britain!

Why Do the Numbers on a Roulette Wheel Add Up to 666?
Vintage & Historical
Ripley's Believe It or Not!

Why Do the Numbers on a Roulette Wheel Add Up to 666?

The work of the devil or a mathematician?

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Sunday Cartoon! - February 2, 2025

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NASA has an Office of Planetary Protection, just in case we ever find life on other plants.

Ripley's Cartoon of the Day

Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, Kieran Castaño is the eighth artist to continue the legacy of illustrating the world's longest-running syndicated cartoon!