Beating out President Roosevelt, champion boxer Jack Dempsey, Hollywood actor James Cagney, and auto tycoon Henry Ford (to name just a few) in 1936, Robert Ripley was deemed the most popular man in America. He won the majority of votes in a poll taken by the Boys Club of New York, which asked children whom they wanted to be when they grew up.
June 29, 2024
In 1954, in a letter to a magazine, Albert Einstein admitted to wanting to be a plumber.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, Kieran Castaño is the eighth artist to continue the legacy of illustrating the world's longest-running syndicated cartoon!