Author Archives: Syndicated Content

Elementary Students Discover Alarming News About Space And EpiPens
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Students from St. Brother Andr Elementary School's Program for Gifted Learners (PGL) recently teamed up with the University of Ottawa to examine whether Ep...
Mar 10, 2023

Mother’s Day Founder Anna Jarvis Fought To Have The Holiday Abolished
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The founder of Mother's Day, the force who spearheaded the holiday to honor the hard work of women across the nation, eventually wanted to shut down the ve...
Mar 09, 2023

The Canary Resuscitator Machine Miners Once Used
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Mining has always been a risky profession, but in the early 20th century, it was even more dangerous. A report published by the Centers for Disease Control...
Mar 08, 2023

NASA Reveals Blueprint For Deflecting Killer Asteroids
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Humanity has long been obsessed with its own demise. From Y2K to the end of the Mayan calendar, people have spent countless hours predicting cataclysmic fu...
Mar 07, 2023
The Alien Autopsy that Fooled the World
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Today, we are hopping in a time machine and going back to the year 1995! Try to picture yourself and the world at that time, for some of us, myself include...
Mar 03, 2023

Mexican President Tweets Blurry Photo of a Mythical Mayan Elf
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Children aren't the only ones who believe in magical creatures; some high-ranking political figures do too. Last weekend, Mexican President, Andrs Manuel L...
Mar 03, 2023

The Irony Of The Man Who Made Himself Immune To Poison
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! You don’t need to be the biggest ancient history buff to know that the Roman army was among the greatest military forces the world has even seen. Whe...
Mar 02, 2023

Nostalgia Was Once Considered A Mental illness?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Ah, nostalgia. It’s Spice Girls dolls, Delia’s catalogs, and MySpace for the Millennials out there, but go back a few centuries ago and nostalg...
Mar 01, 2023

Ripley’s in Talks to Purchase the Real Cocaine Bear
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Thanks to a video asking Kentucky for Kentucky, a state-devoted souvenir shop in Lexington, to name their price, Ripley's Believe It or Not! is now in nego...
Feb 28, 2023

Da Vinci Discovered Aspects of Gravity Centuries Before Einstein
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Believe It or Not!, Leonardo da Vinci understood gravity in the 1500s, long before Galileo, Newton, and Einstein came up with their own theories about the ...
Feb 24, 2023