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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!”

1. Skipper! An Oklahoma puppy named Skipper is believed to be the first dog with six legs ever to survive birth! She also has two tails, two reproductive systems, two pelvic regions, and two lower urinary tracts! 2. In February, a sheep named Baarack was found roaming through a state forest in Australia, sporting 78 pounds of overgrown wool! He has since been rescued and shorn. 3. Cannibal Cobra Up to 40 percent of the Southern African Cape cobra's diet consists of other snakes - and sometimes other Cape cobras.

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CARTOON 05-08-2021

Ripley's Believe It or Not!, May 8, 2021

Up to 40 percent of the Southern African Cape cobra’s diet consists of other snakes – and sometimes other Cape cobras.

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1. During the Ice Age, lions roamed North America! Submitted by Richard Gibson, Lafayette, LA. 2. In February 2021, what may be the world's oldest industrial-scale brewery was discovered in the ancient city of Abydos, south of Cairo, Egypt. Submitted by Nate Westbury, Minneapolis, MN. 3. The oldest DNA ever decoded belongs to a mammoth that lived about 1.2 million years ago near Siberia's Krestovka River. Submitted by Nate Westbury, Minneapolis, MN.

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CARTOON 05-07-2021

Ripley's Believe It or Not!, May 7, 2021

During the Ice Age, lions roamed North America!

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1. Mars has dust storms powered by sunshine! 2. In the most remote region of the Sahara, there is a life-size silhouette of an airplane made in honor of the 170 lives lost in UTA Flight 772 in 1989, created out of large stones and wreckage from the crash. 3. Latvian startup Brette Haus has developed a series of cabins that can fold into themselves and can be set up or taken down in a matter of hours by just two people!

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CARTOON 05-06-2021

Ripley's Believe It or Not!, May 6, 2021

Mars has dust storms powered by sunshine!

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1. Kukri snakes dive headfirst into the abdomens of living frogs and toads to devour their organs before swallowing their prey whole! 2. GR-UV! When put under UV rays, African springhares transform from a muted brown color to vibrant swirls of orange and pink! 3. Amazon River dolphins turn pink as they age!

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CARTOON 05-05-2021

Ripley's Believe It or Not!, May 5, 2021

Amazon River dolphins turn pink as they age!

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1. Hide & Go Seek! With just one specimen collected in the 1840s and then going unseen for 170 years, the black-browed babbler was finally rediscovered in Indonesia in October 2020. 2. Mammoth molars were the size of a carton of milk! 3. Some scorpions will break off part of their tails as a defense mechanism. However, this move also removes their anus, causing them to slowly die after months of constipation!

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CARTOON 05-04-2021

Ripley's Believe It or Not!, May 4, 2021

Mammoth molars were the size of a carton of milk!

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1. New Zealand researchers recently discovered three deep-sea shark species glow in the dark! 2. The brown thrasher, a North American bird, has a repertoire of more than 3,000 different sounds. 3. While on an excursion to the remote island of South Georgia in December 2019, Belgian photographer Yves Adams captured images of a rare yellow king penguin among thousands of its tuxedo-clad peers.

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CARTOON 05-03-2021

Ripley's Believe It or Not!, May 3, 2021

New Zealand researchers recently discovered three deep-sea shark species glow in the dark!

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1. A U.S. household will, on average, use two trees' worth of toilet paper per year. 2. Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman is the only man in MLB ® history to be killed by a pitch! 3. Marshmallow treats date back to ancient Egypt! 4. Teeny Tiny! The bee hummingbird grows to the same length as the short side of a business card and weighs less than one!

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CARTOON 05-02-2021

John Graziano, May 2, 2021

Marshmallow treats date back to ancient Egypt!

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1. Baby porcupines are called porcupettes! 2. Australia's oldest known rock painting is a 17,300-year-old and 6.5-foot-long anatomically correct image of a kangaroo. 3. The Indian city of Delhi has its own tree ambulance manned by four arboreal experts to treat sick and dying trees.

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CARTOON 05-01-2021

Ripley's Believe It or Not!, May 1, 2021

Baby porcupines are called porcupettes!

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$1. Your hair and fingernails do not grow after death. 2. The fur & stool of an otherwise healthy pack of stray dogs in Russia turned blue! It is thought an abandoned chemical plant nearby is to blame. 3. You use your entire brain, not just a fraction, as commonly believed!$

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CARTOON 04-30-2021

Ripley's Believe It or Not!, April 30, 2021

Your hair and fingernails do not grow after death.

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1. Scientists have discovered a way to use the human body to power electronic devices! 2. A house on the Vietnamese island of Hon Thom has a fence made entirely out of dozens of old TV sets. 3. If there are 10 books on a bookshelf, they can be arranged in 3,628,800 different ways.

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CARTOON 04-29-2021

Ripley's Believe It or Not!, April 29, 2021

Scientists have discovered a way to use the human body to power electronic devices!

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