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Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Poison Ivy. Spider-Man 2099. Omega Red. These toxic comic book characters use poison-based attacks to defeat their opponents. But can mere mortals be capab...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially demoted Pluto from the beloved ninth planet to one of five dwarf planets; the universe hasn'...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! We have an island run by cats, an eerie network of tombs underneath Paris and the world's deadliest hiking trail. On the first episode of Ripley's Round Tr...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The hazy landscapes favored by impressionist artists in the mid-18th to 20th centuries were not just dreamy depictions of nature-they were a reflection of ...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Between 25 and 4 million years ago, aquatic sloths nearly the size of elephants lived in what is now known as Chile and Peru. These sloths were skilled swi...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! On May 9, 1980, 35 people traveling southbound across the Sunshine Skyway Bridge died after plunging into Tampa Bay, unaware that the structure had partial...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Fifty million years ago, during the Eocene Epoch, the Earth was an unrecognizable wilderness of verdant forests and expansive valleys where tapirs, rhinoce...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Conversation hearts and boxes of chocolates are synonymous with Valentine's Day, but no ordinary candy for Ripley's sweethearts will do. Ripley's Believe I...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! More than 1,000 years ago, Vikings sailed west toward England with their pets onboard their ships, according to a new study published in the journal PLOS O...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Imagine you're an amateur radio operator in the 70s for a moment. You've just purchased a high-tech gadget that lets you talk with people vast distances aw...