Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Before Oppenheimer: Ripley’s Buys Part of First Nuclear Reactor
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Christopher Nolan's $100-million epic, Oppenheimer, releases in theaters on Friday, July 21. The movie is expected to offer an electrifying portrayal of J....
Jul 20, 2023
An Underwater Music Festival in Florida Raises Coral Reef Awareness
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Traditional marketing advice says, "Go where your audience is." The officials behind The Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival near Big Pine Key, Florida, h...
Jul 19, 2023
Ripley’s Round Trip: The World’s Most Mysterious Islands
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Welcome to a spine-tingling episode of Ripley's Round Trip, where we'll explore the world’s most mysterious islands, uncovering their dark histories ...
Jul 14, 2023
The Terrifyingly True Stories Of People That Were Buried Alive
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Burials are the ultimate farewell to our mortal selves, a chance to rest forever. That is, unless you consider the chilling possibility of being buried ali...
Jul 13, 2023
Liquid Trees Could Solve The Urban Air Pollution Crisis
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Urban air pollution affects the lives of more than 2.5 billion people worldwide and increases the risk of heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, and chronic r...
Jul 12, 2023
Beyond The Snail: Meet The Mollusks That Race, Conquer, And More
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Did you know there are more than 40,000 species of snails on the planet? Or that they thrive in salt water, fresh water, and on land? Some grow huge, like ...
Jul 11, 2023
Up Close & Peculiar: Forrest Gump’s Box of Chocolates
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Up Close & Peculiar More than 100 years ago, the globetrotting Robert Ripley began collecting artifacts from his journeys around the world, which today...
Jul 07, 2023
New Research Flips Women’s Role In Hunter And Gatherer Societies On Its Head
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! You may have learned in school that prehistoric men hunted while the women gathered in early hunter and gatherer cultures, but new research shows that fema...
Jul 07, 2023
Caviar Craze: People Have Dined On Caviar Since Prehistory
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! From 1960 through 1966, Americans fell in love with Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones. Set in the Modern Stone Age city of Bedrock, the cartoon included many...
Jul 06, 2023
Meet ELIZA: The 60s Chatbot That Set The Groundwork For ChatGPT
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! You've probably heard of ChatGPT, a computer program that is trained to follow your instruction and provide a variety of wide ranging responses. As someone...
Jun 30, 2023