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Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Lifelong Mainer, Arlene Cole has been working with the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and tracking the weather for almost 60 years! The...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! When nature calls, the toilet-shaped plants of the tropics work as the perfect bathroom for small mammals that call the forests home. In fact, by using the...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! When it comes to rare and risky medical procedures, they don't generally threaten the lives of medical personnel. But such was the case in January 2023 whe...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! March 1959 saw the launch of one of history's most iconic toys, the Barbie doll. She hit the scene at the American Toy Fair in New York City, wearing a sty...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Rumors abound that the 27th president of the United States, William Howard Taft, got stuck in a bathtub at the White House due to his portly size. Specific...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...