Ripley's Weird News

Often referred to back then as “the sky boys,” workers finished building the skyscraper in just 410 days — that‘s more than four stories a week!

On April 19, 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann took the first intentional dose of LSD. Decades later, Mark McCloud decorates his home with blotter art.

Upon the purchase of one of Yves Klein’s imaginary zones, the artist went through an elaborate ritual with the buyer, which sometimes included burning the receipt.

There’s more than pollen to keep an eye out for this allergy season!

For the rest of Shep’s life, he would be a train station icon, appearing every day in hopes that his master would return by rail.

Recent trends have bakers decorating cakes to look like everyday objects. But throughout history, people have been adding tiny, inedible objects to their cake batter in hopes of revealing what the future may hold.

Recent analysis of fossil records reveal that long before it was “a dog-eat-dog world,” it was “a trilobite-eat-trilobite world.”

This shape-shifting robot is (almost) ready to make its way into your digestive system!

Some recipes for the cake required unsavory ingredients such as soot, urine, hair, and nail clippings.

Mood rings used the same technology as some of our favorite modern-day devices — probably even the screen you’re reading right now!