Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Mimi Choi’s Unbelievable Makeup Illusions
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Mimi Choi traded in her day job as a preschool teacher to pursue a career in illusion makeup, and the eye-twisting results appear straight out of Salvador ...
Dec 22, 2022
Three Ways Cleopatra Contributed to Science and Medicine
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Cleopatra remains a favorite of Hollywood epics and Halloween costumes. One of the most celebrated movies to explore the late, great Egyptian pharaoh's lif...
Dec 22, 2022
Watch the Trained Rats and Cats of Cirque du Sewer!
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Instead of elephants and clowns, Cirque du Sewer is revamping the concept of a circus by featuring the perfect furry assistants: cats and rats! You have ne...
Dec 21, 2022
Were the Wright Brothers the First to Fly?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Humankind has envied birds and other flying animals for millennia. The sheer exhilaration, the freedom, the ability to eschew busy airports and pricey flig...
Dec 21, 2022
Colorado 8-Year-Old Becomes Youngest to Ski 7 Continents
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! While most kids are busy trading Pokmon cards and playing Roblox, eight-year-old Maddock Lipp of Golden, Colorado, has done the astonishing. Not content to...
Dec 20, 2022
Remains of Last-Known Tasmanian Tiger Found in Museum
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The remains of the last-known Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus) were recently rediscovered at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) in Hobart...
Dec 16, 2022
Earth’s Missing Continent That Took 375 Years to Find
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Some knowledge remains static, while other so-called facts become footnotes in history. For example, the nine planets many of us grew up learning about in ...
Dec 15, 2022
Was Egyptian Mummification Really About Preserving Bodies?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Even a fifth grader could tell you why Egyptians mummified the dead bodies of their loved ones: They took the measure to preserve the final remains of fami...
Dec 14, 2022
Emperor’s Top-Secret Assassination Letter Finally Decoded
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! It's the kind of case the fictional professor of symbology at Harvard, Robert Langdon, would sink his teeth into. A 500-year-old mystery message from an im...
Dec 13, 2022
The Burial Cliffs of Sagada and their Hanging Coffins
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Believe It or Not!, there are cemeteries suspended from cliffs in Sagada, Philippines! They were put there by indigenous people following ancient tradition...
Dec 12, 2022