Believe It or Not!
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Ripley Publishing has a huge collection of amazing books packed with every conceivable item within the universe of Believe It or Not!. Our fabulous annuals have hundreds of pages in multiple categories of the odd and incredible. Always new, always weird and 100% true. Dive inside our books, including previews into our latest book Strikingly True!, and get online exclusive prices when you buy any Ripley title.
Facebook Fad
In the Facebook fad of horsemaning, two people pose for prank pictures to make it look as if one of them has lost their head. The craze for posing for photos as headless horsemen (hence the name) was actually around in the 1920s–long before the advent of the internet. Paul ...
Extreme Planking
Planking is a worldwide craze that has taken off dramatically in recent years due to plankers posting their images on the internet. The phenomenon involves participants lying face down in unusual locations with their hands touching the sides of the body–mimicking a wooden plank–while someone else takes a picture of ...
Suburbia Unwrapped Review
My kids are fascinated by random trivia. We have apps on my iphone that keep them entertained for hours in the car just learning about weird facts. They are also passionate readers and enjoy an odd assortment of books both fiction and non fiction. So, when I got the chance ...
EGGSERCISE!
Darryl Learie of Alberta, Canada, is able to complete one-armed push-ups on the top of a raw egg, without smashing it. Incredibly, Darryl’s record stands at 11 repetitions before the egg finally gave way. Darryl explains that the arched top and bottom of the shell enable the egg to withstand ...
Dancing Balloon
Australian entertainer Bruce Airhead uses a voice-activated vacuum cleaner to inflate a 6-ft (1.8-m) balloon–and then he slides his entire body inside, bit by bit, and starts dancing. As a final twist, although he enters the balloon wearing only lycra shorts, he emerges through the burst balloon fully dressed as ...
Inspired by Savannah Review
Ripley Publishing will again WOW! readers with its latest annual, Ripley’s Believe it or Not! Download the Weird, an all-new collection of unbelievable stories from around the world But there’s a new twist to Download the Weird—readers can actually download the weird. The brand new Ripley’s Believe It or Not! ...
What A Mouthful!
RIPLEY’S WEIRD RECORD: On July 4th, 2011, Dinesh Shivnath Upadhyaya, a teacher from Mumbai, India, set a new world record by fitting 800 drinking straws into his mouth at the same time and keeping them there for 30 seconds. Download The Weird features incredible people such as The Odd Couple ...
Benji’s visit to Ripley’s!
Benji Williams of Los Angeles, California, has been making rubber-band balls since he was six. He went to Orlando, Florida, on vacation to visit Ripley’s warehouse to see the world’s biggest rubber-band ball, made by Joel Waul and weighing 9,432 lb (4,282 kg). Benji’s ball is already well over 100 ...
5 Minutes For Books Review
Ok, I realize this is a little strange. For me. Perhaps slightly out of character. Maybe just a little. (Then again, maybe not.) But I really am morbidly fascinated by Ripley’s Believe it or Not. Apparently they now know this of me because they send me their books unsolicited. I ...
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