Ripley's Weird News

 The Voldemort-esque parasitic twin is fearsome, but fake.

Omani cave explorers become first to descend to the depths of Yemen’s “Well of Hell,” only to find waterfalls and snakes in place of genies and demons.

To effectively test the coaster’s capabilities, researchers made a 3D model of a kidney and filled it with urine and real kidney stones.

Dressed in layered skirts, sandals, pigtail braids, and bowler hats, the Fighting Cholitas perform in front of hundreds of spectators, tossing each other around with perfectly practiced maneuvers.

Two weeks, five attacks, and four deaths transformed sharks into a symbol of terror.

A car park in Thailand is in full bloom after a taxi company transformed its fleet into a community garden to help feed drivers put out of work by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The reader is challenged to correctly rearrange the pages, which were printed “in an entirely haphazard and incorrect order.” There are 32 million possible combinations!

There are no cell phones, cordless phones, Wi-Fi, microwaves, or even wireless speakers allowed in West Virginia’s National Radio Quiet Zone, home to the largest fully steerable radio telescope on Earth.

The Cuvier’s beaked whale can hold its breath for more than 3 hours at a time!

This year’s Ig Nobel Prize Awards winners include upside-down rhinos, beards taking a hit, and just how germy sidewalk gum really is.