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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...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Children aren't the only ones who believe in magical creatures; some high-ranking political figures do too. Last weekend, Mexican President, Andrs Manuel L...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! You don’t need to be the biggest ancient history buff to know that the Roman army was among the greatest military forces the world has even seen. Whe...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Ah, nostalgia. It’s Spice Girls dolls, Delia’s catalogs, and MySpace for the Millennials out there, but go back a few centuries ago and nostalg...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Thanks to a video asking Kentucky for Kentucky, a state-devoted souvenir shop in Lexington, to name their price, Ripley's Believe It or Not! is now in nego...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Believe It or Not!, Leonardo da Vinci understood gravity in the 1500s, long before Galileo, Newton, and Einstein came up with their own theories about the ...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! You don't have to look far to find bizarre tourist attractions around the globe. San Luis Obispo, California, boasts Bubblegum Alley, where you can visit a...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Poison Ivy. Spider-Man 2099. Omega Red. These toxic comic book characters use poison-based attacks to defeat their opponents. But can mere mortals be capab...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially demoted Pluto from the beloved ninth planet to one of five dwarf planets; the universe hasn'...