Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Ripley’s Commemorates Nik Wallenda’s Niagara Falls Walk In Wax
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Nik Wallenda, a seventh-generation high-wire walker of the world-famous Wallenda family, is celebrating a major anniversary of one of his most impressive f...
Jun 15, 2022
The Origin Of Pittsburgh Potties, ‘Open-Concept’ Basement Toilets
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! If you've ever been to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, you may have come across a decidedly non-private home amenity: a toilet standing by itself in the middle o...
Jun 15, 2022
Paleontologists Uncover One Of The Largest Predators To Roam Europe
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Paleontologists recently unearthed the remains of the largest predator to roam Europe, and it's bigger and badder than you can possibly imagine. Here's the...
Jun 14, 2022
83-Year-Old Sails Across Pacific And Into The Record Books
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! On March 27, Japanese adventurer Kenichi Horie boarded his 19-foot-long sailboat, the Suntory Mermaid III, in San Francisco and headed west with his sights...
Jun 10, 2022
Meet Pythagoras: Mathematician, Philosopher, and Bean Hater
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! We don't know much about the life of Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras, who was born around 570 BC. He is most famous for giving us the Pythag...
Jun 09, 2022
Research Suggests Mushrooms Talk To Each Other
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! When we think of the brilliant flora and fauna of planet Earth, the usual suspects tend to come to mind, such as the great intelligence of dolphins, or ele...
Jun 08, 2022
Is The FBI Hiding Civil War–Era Buried Treasure?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Even school kids understand the adage "finders keepers." But a group of Pennsylvania treasure hunters is claiming that the Federal Bureau of Investigation ...
Jun 07, 2022
Last Salem "Witch" Pardoned Thanks To Middle Schoolers
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Three centuries after being convicted of hocus pocus, the last Salem "witch" has been officially pardoned by the state of Massachusetts. Elizabeth Johnson ...
Jun 03, 2022
Was Avril Lavigne Replaced By A Double? It’s Complicated
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The 20th anniversary of Avril Lavigne's debut album is upon us! On June 4, 2002, she introduced us to a certain Sk8er Boi, and as she steps up her public a...
Jun 02, 2022
The Chinese Opera Singer (and Spy) Who Loved Me
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! On June 30, 2009, Shi Pei Pu died in a Parisian nursing home at 70. Born in Shandong Province, Shi had enthralled Europe with his* operatic singing and gra...
Jun 01, 2022