Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Happy Nude Year! Japan’s Nearly Naked New Year’s Festival
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! For the past 500 years, residents of Okayama, Japan, have celebrated New Year's by assembling more than 10,000 loincloth-clad men who try their luck at cat...
Jan 01, 2023
World’s Toughest Material Has Bizarre Property, Scientists Find
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The claim that the toughest material on Earth only gets stronger under extreme temperatures sounds like something out of a superhero movie, but according t...
Dec 30, 2022
Snoopy First Appeared in a Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Cartoon
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Believe It or Not!, Snoopy, the famous Peanuts character, made his first appearance in a Ripley's cartoon! That's right, as a kid, Charles Schulz looked up...
Dec 29, 2022
The Secret to Glass Frog Transparency Revealed
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Creatures are at their most vulnerable during sleep cycles. As a result, some get around it altogether… at least for a while. For example, newborn do...
Dec 28, 2022
Ripley’s Answers the Most Googled Questions of 2022
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! There may be no such thing as a stupid question, but most of us would still prefer our internet inquiries to stay between Google and ourselves. Luckily for...
Dec 27, 2022
Military Members Reported Hundreds of UFO Sightings in 2022
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Pentagon's brand-new All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) has received "several hundred" reports of unidentified flying objects since July, acco...
Dec 23, 2022
Mimi Choi’s Unbelievable Makeup Illusions
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Mimi Choi traded in her day job as a preschool teacher to pursue a career in illusion makeup, and the eye-twisting results appear straight out of Salvador ...
Dec 22, 2022
Three Ways Cleopatra Contributed to Science and Medicine
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Cleopatra remains a favorite of Hollywood epics and Halloween costumes. One of the most celebrated movies to explore the late, great Egyptian pharaoh's lif...
Dec 22, 2022
Watch the Trained Rats and Cats of Cirque du Sewer!
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Instead of elephants and clowns, Cirque du Sewer is revamping the concept of a circus by featuring the perfect furry assistants: cats and rats! You have ne...
Dec 21, 2022
Were the Wright Brothers the First to Fly?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Humankind has envied birds and other flying animals for millennia. The sheer exhilaration, the freedom, the ability to eschew busy airports and pricey flig...
Dec 21, 2022