Category Archives: Weird News – Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
Proto-NFT? Receipt for Invisible Art From 1959 Sells For $1.2 Million
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! An undisclosed private art collector in Europe recently made more than $1 million go "Poof!" by purchasing a receipt for invisible artwork at auction. The ...
Apr 19, 2022
Not Just Allergies: Gardener’s Itchy Eye Caused By Fly Larvae
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Bees are buzzing. Birds are chirping. Flowers are blooming. People are sneezing. It must be allergy season! As people across the Northern Hemisphere began ...
Apr 15, 2022
The Legend Of Shep, The Dog Who Never Stopped Waiting
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Remarkably, dogs have been our loyal companions, hunting partners and best friends for perhaps 400 centuries. It's estimated that humankind domesticated do...
Apr 14, 2022
Instead Of Making Cakes Look Like Objects, People Used To Bake Objects Inside Cakes
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! While the most recent baking phenomenon involves decorating cakes to appear indistinguishable from everyday objects (currently manifesting in the new Netfl...
Apr 13, 2022
Trilo-BITES: The World’s Earliest Cases Of Cannibalism
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Russell Bicknell, a paleontologist at Australia's University of New England, had a mystery on his hands. After half a decade spent examining trilobite foss...
Apr 12, 2022
Magnetic Slime Robot Could Someday Be Used Retrieve Swallowed Objects
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Each year, thousands of children swallow objects not suited for human consumption with no other option but to wait for time - and the digestive system - to...
Apr 08, 2022
The Centuries-Old Cake Recipe Said To Reveal Your Future Spouse
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! During the late-17th to mid-20th centuries, unwed women in England and America did not swipe right to find a husband. Instead, they baked special "dumb cak...
Apr 07, 2022
Mood Rings: From ’70s fad and ’90s nostalgia to LCDs and NFTs
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Commonly thought of as a novelty toy found in dollar stores and souvenir shops, mood rings began as a groovy '70s fad that used the same technology as some...
Apr 06, 2022
Scottish Group Builds World’s Largest Insect Hotel
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! From the Highland fling to bagpipes, kilts to haggis, Scotland is famous for many things, although the verdict's still out on how "good" some of these inno...
Apr 05, 2022
Locked Up By Love? The Dating Game’s (Serial) Killer Appearance
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! In the '60s and '70s, before there was Bachelor Nation or 90 Day Fianc, the on-screen romance began with a household hit - The Dating Game. The groovy set ...
Apr 01, 2022