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Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! What comes to mind when you hear the term "government cheese"? If you're a child of the 1980s, it likely involves recollections of a salty, pale-orange sub...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! After 4,500 years, the Great Pyramid of Giza is still revealing secrets from within, as advanced cosmic ray technology has revealed two mysterious tunnels ...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Over the past four decades, Metallica has become synonymous with the metal genre, selling more than 100 million records since their 1981 debut, racking up ...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Among the chaos of WWII, a British magician claimed he could fool the Nazis by hiding tanks in plain sight and making armies invisible. But was he a hero o...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Animals communicate through innovative, multi-sensory means, including sight, sound, and smell. As the American Scientist points out, we've known since anc...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! New England scallop fishing isn't for the faint of heart. Scallopers head out on boats measuring between 70 to 100 feet long in crews of seven, including a...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, in the German Empire's Kingdom of Wrttemberg, in March 1879. From humble beginnings and a struggle to find work, he began ...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Have you ever seen a spider as big as your palm? If you’re living on the East Coast, you may check it off your bucket list soon enough. According to ...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Strange rain has long fascinated humanity, and people have written a lot about it over the years. For example, in June 2009, residents of Japan's Ishikawa ...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! In the late 1600s, Jonathan Lambert, a native of Kent, England, journeyed to Chilmark, a small town on the west end of Martha's Vineyard. He was Deaf, as w...