Ripley’s daily fun facts cartoon was started in 1918 by Robert Ripley. The cartoon contains stories so bizarre it can only be called “Believe It or Not!”
A pair of woodpeckers filled the walls of a Santa Rosa, California, home with more than 700 pounds of acorns.
A 6-year-old Teddy Roosevelt watched Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession.
As president of the Society of American Magicians, Harry Houdini worked to expose fraudulent artists.
Celebrities have to pay for their own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.