In celebration of Nickelodeon favorites’ pearl anniversaries, we’re sharing some strange and shocking facts behind the sketches of three classic Nicktoons.

It wasn’t until the 1994 animated series, after years of establishing Carmen Sandiego as a mysterious character, that show writers started to give her a bit more of a narrative.

Previously believed to have been built between 1440 and 1450 AD, researchers used the radiocarbon dating technique to determine that the World Wonder was actually built about 20 years earlier!

To this day, Olympians, judges, dignitaries, members of the committee, and officials still receive their participation medal from the International Olympic Committee.

Full of inspiration, ingenuity, and unbelievable accomplishments, let the latest Ripley’s annual book challenge you to step Out of the Box!

The exact number of white orcas in the world is unknown, but considering that they were once thought to be mythical, we’d say these tourists got their money’s worth!

Rumors of after-meal cramping have been greatly exaggerated.

Apparently, nobody had a craving for freeze-dried chicken and crab meat entrees created by a company best known for mint-flavored toothpaste.

For this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, join Ripley’s Believe It or Not! and a panel of professors, disaster experts, paranormal celebs as they take a deep dive into the science behind your favorite sci-fi fandom.

Organizers have special plans for if the flames go out.

This year’s sustainability-centric Olympics will feature medals made of over 6 million phones, tablets, and laptops!

As she embarks on her greatest adventure of all time, let’s pull a few unbelievable facts out of the vault to learn more about the Olympian with a heart of gold, Simone Biles.

Despite what you have seen on TV, the device known as an automated external defibrillator (AED) is not meant to restart a heart that has completely stopped.

In other places, family members would eat the ashes of suspected vampires as a remedy for their illness, while others would inhale the smoke as the organs burned.