Category Archives: Weird News – Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
New Research Flips Women’s Role In Hunter And Gatherer Societies On Its Head
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! You may have learned in school that prehistoric men hunted while the women gathered in early hunter and gatherer cultures, but new research shows that fema...
Jul 07, 2023
Caviar Craze: People Have Dined On Caviar Since Prehistory
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! From 1960 through 1966, Americans fell in love with Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones. Set in the Modern Stone Age city of Bedrock, the cartoon included many...
Jul 06, 2023
Meet ELIZA: The 60s Chatbot That Set The Groundwork For ChatGPT
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! You've probably heard of ChatGPT, a computer program that is trained to follow your instruction and provide a variety of wide ranging responses. As someone...
Jun 30, 2023
Humans Inhale Credit Card-Sized Amounts Of Microplastics Every Week
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Humans are potentially inhaling a credit card-sized amount of harmful microplastics on a weekly basis, and new research published in the journal Physics of...
Jun 30, 2023
It’s A Whole New World: 2023 Is Disney’s 100th Birthday
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Pop the confetti, light up the fireworks, and grab your mouse ears-it’s time to celebrate! 2023 marks one hundred years of the Walt Disney Company ma...
Jun 29, 2023
Why Is Everyone Watching TV With the Subtitles On?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! During the early days of film, text proved a must. Movies were silent, so dialogue delivery required the written word. The first intertitles did little mor...
Jun 28, 2023
2023… The Year Of The Ocean’s Revenge?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The catastrophic implosion of OceanGate's Titan submarine has skyrocketed the ocean to the top of the news cycle recently. Many people have weighed in, inc...
Jun 27, 2023
Ripley’s Round Trip: The Most Forbidden Places on Earth
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! From remote islands to top-secret government facilities, join me as we discover the secrets and stories that make these places entirely off-limits. So get ...
Jun 23, 2023
Police Set Up Cameras at Vegas Home After Family Reports Alien Sighting
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Police officers in Las Vegas recently set up video cameras on a family's property following claims that aliens crashed into their backyard, according to AB...
Jun 23, 2023
Live Long And Prosper: The Longest Living Animals On Earth
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! There are no friends quite as loyal, quite as adorable, quite as likely to be distracted by a laser-dot on the floor for fifteen minutes straight, as our p...
Jun 21, 2023