Author Archives: Syndicated Content
The Golden Age Pineapple Rentals
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The pineapple is in the running for the quirkiest-looking fruit around, and it can certainly be tricky to prepare. It's worth the effort of penetrating tha...
Feb 03, 2022
The Unlikely Rise Of Japan’s Monkey Queen And The Threat To Her Throne
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! A first impression of Yakei, a nine-year-old Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) living at the Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden, generally proves disar...
Feb 01, 2022
Feel The Burn With Ivan Djuric’s Hyper-Realistic Pyrography Portraits
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Ripley’s Collection features quite an assortment of unusual art - cheese sculptures, portraits made of human hair, pictures crafted using cigaret...
Jan 28, 2022
Tonga’s Once-In-A-Millennium Volcanic Explosion
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Unprecedented. Isolation. Uncertainty. All words nobody ever wanted to hear again, yet here we are. No, we’re not having a flashback to 2020 or sound...
Jan 28, 2022
South Africa’s Most Valuable Pachyderm: Huberta the Hippo
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! During the Great Depression, a hippopotamus in South Africa decided she wanted to see more than her microcosmic watering hole. She began what would become ...
Jan 27, 2022
Teenager Zara Rutherford Becomes Youngest Woman To Fly Solo Around The World
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! When it comes to smashing aviation records, most people think of the Wright Brothers, Charles Lindbergh, and Chuck Yaeger. We also assume there are no reco...
Jan 26, 2022
James Webb Space Telescope Reaches Final Destination
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Today - January 24, 2022 - the James Webb Space Telescope, also called JWST or Webb, reaches its final destination. Known as the second Lagrange point or L...
Jan 24, 2022
All About Muang Boran, The World’s Largest Open-Air Museum
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The world’s largest outdoor museum occupies 300 acres just outside Bangkok - and in case you’re wondering, that’s about 227 football fiel...
Jan 21, 2022
Tennessee Drivers Bewildered By 18-Foot Skillet Traveling I-59
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Road trip enthusiasts have a new stop to add to their bucket lists after America’s latest roadside oddity was spotted casting a spell on drivers alon...
Jan 21, 2022
Scientists Train Goldfish To Drive… On Land
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The only time most people see fish driving automobiles is while watching an episode of Spongebob Squarepants. But if you thought cars were something reserv...
Jan 18, 2022