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    • What Are The Odds? Ripley’s Rescues Another Orange Lobster

      Ripley's Believe It or Not! Ripley's Believe It or Not!, August 8, 2022
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      Ripley's Believe It or Not! Ripley's Believe It or Not!, August 5, 2022

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      Ripley's Believe It or Not! Ripley's Believe It or Not!, July 29, 2022

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    • 1. You can get poisoned by eating too much cheese - a phenomenon known as tyrotoxism. 2. Wine glasses are seven times larger than they used to be 300 years ago. 3. Ancient Egyptians played bowling 5,000 years ago!

      CARTOON 08-08-2022

      Ripley's Believe It or Not! Ripley's Believe It or Not!, August 8, 2022
    • 1. Oklahoma is the only state to have an official meal! The spread consists of fried okra, cornbread, and barbecue pork, squash, biscuits, sausage and gravy, grits, corn, strawberries, chicken-fried steak, pecan pie and black-eyed peas! 2. Australia experienced brief radio blackouts in April 2022 after strong solar flares collided with the earth. 3. The Pyrophorus nyctophanus insect of Brazil has two light-up organs positioned near the front of its body, giving the bug its common name: headlight beetle! 4. Since the original Pac-Man arcade game debuted in 1980, only about a dozen people have completed all 256 levels and achieved a perfect score of 3,333,360 points.

      CARTOON 08-07-2022

      Ripley's Believe It or Not! Ripley's Believe It or Not!, August 7, 2022
    • 1. 400 million years ago, the earth was covered with giant mushrooms that were over 20 feet tall! 2. The human eye contains over two million working parts! 3. Because atoms repel each other, you are never really touching anything!

      CARTOON 08-06-2022

      Ripley's Believe It or Not! Ripley's Believe It or Not!, August 6, 2022
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What Are The Odds? Ripley’s Rescues Another Orange Lobster

The Choker: An Ancient Accessory Worn By Royalty And Prostitutes Alike

Choker Necklace

Cat Food-Inspired Restaurant To Open In New York

Cat Food Restaurant

Immortal Jellyfish: The Secret To Cheating Death?

Immortal Jellyfish

Fantasy Forest Discovered Inside 630-Foot-Deep Sinkhole

Dead Spiders Transformed Into Reanimated Necrobots

Robot Spider

How World War II, The Slinky, And A Bolivian Cult Are All Connected

Chess Robot Breaks 7-Year-Old Opponent’s Finger

Chess Robot
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CARTOON 06-19-2022

Platypuses glow blue and green under UV light!

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Ripley's Believe It or Not! Ripley's Believe It or Not! — June 19, 2022
1. Over the course of 40 years, Butch Baker of Four Oaks, North Carolina, crafted a paper chain measuring more than 23 miles long! Part of the Ripley's Collection! 2. In September 2021, Croatian free-diver Vitomir Maričić walked 351 feet underwater on a single breath of air! 3. Platypuses glow blue and green under UV light! 4. Artist Sean Avery of Perth, Australia, turns old CDs into animal sculptures. Part of the Ripley's Collection!
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CARTOON 08-08-2022

1. You can get poisoned by eating too much cheese - a phenomenon known as tyrotoxism. 2. Wine glasses are seven times larger than they used to be 300 years ago. 3. Ancient Egyptians played bowling 5,000 years ago!

CARTOON 08-07-2022

1. Oklahoma is the only state to have an official meal! The spread consists of fried okra, cornbread, and barbecue pork, squash, biscuits, sausage and gravy, grits, corn, strawberries, chicken-fried steak, pecan pie and black-eyed peas! 2. Australia experienced brief radio blackouts in April 2022 after strong solar flares collided with the earth. 3. The Pyrophorus nyctophanus insect of Brazil has two light-up organs positioned near the front of its body, giving the bug its common name: headlight beetle! 4. Since the original Pac-Man arcade game debuted in 1980, only about a dozen people have completed all 256 levels and achieved a perfect score of 3,333,360 points.

CARTOON 08-06-2022

1. 400 million years ago, the earth was covered with giant mushrooms that were over 20 feet tall! 2. The human eye contains over two million working parts! 3. Because atoms repel each other, you are never really touching anything!

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