Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Woman Earns Up To $10k for Branded Baby Names
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! A quick Google search for "baby name anxiety" will tell you that new parents are often in for a motherlode of stress when it comes time to name their bundl...
Apr 22, 2022
The Dark Secret That Forced Walter Rothschild To Sell His Bird Collection
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! When Walter Rothschild sold one of his most precious zoological collections to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City in 1931, it spoke of...
Apr 21, 2022
The Fearless Daredevils Who Built The Empire State Building
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Empire State Building has always been New York City's most iconic skyscraper. It has been featured in movies, video games, and TV shows throughout hist...
Apr 20, 2022
Bicycle Day And Blotter Art: Celebrating The First LSD Trip
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! April 19 is a historic day in psychedelic culture. Commonly referred to as Bicycle Day, the date celebrates Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann's discovery of the...
Apr 19, 2022
Proto-NFT? Receipt for Invisible Art From 1959 Sells For $1.2 Million
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! An undisclosed private art collector in Europe recently made more than $1 million go "Poof!" by purchasing a receipt for invisible artwork at auction. The ...
Apr 19, 2022
Trend Home Improvements
Trend Home Improvements is a locally owned and operated exterior and interior supply & installation company serving Grande Prairie and the Peace Region since 1983. Providing services including Sid...
Apr 18, 2022
Not Just Allergies: Gardener’s Itchy Eye Caused By Fly Larvae
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Bees are buzzing. Birds are chirping. Flowers are blooming. People are sneezing. It must be allergy season! As people across the Northern Hemisphere began ...
Apr 15, 2022
The Legend Of Shep, The Dog Who Never Stopped Waiting
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Remarkably, dogs have been our loyal companions, hunting partners and best friends for perhaps 400 centuries. It's estimated that humankind domesticated do...
Apr 14, 2022
Instead Of Making Cakes Look Like Objects, People Used To Bake Objects Inside Cakes
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! While the most recent baking phenomenon involves decorating cakes to appear indistinguishable from everyday objects (currently manifesting in the new Netfl...
Apr 13, 2022
Trilo-BITES: The World’s Earliest Cases Of Cannibalism
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Russell Bicknell, a paleontologist at Australia's University of New England, had a mystery on his hands. After half a decade spent examining trilobite foss...
Apr 12, 2022