Up Close & Peculiar With Charles Manson
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Up Close & Peculiar With Charles Manson

How did this ordinary man become one of the most dangerous cult leaders of all time?

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Oath Skull From the Secret Courts of Westphalia
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Oath Skull From the Secret Courts of Westphalia

The accused would swear on holy relics like this human skull.

Duplicating Edison's Iconic Invention for Light's Golden Jubilee
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Colton Kruse

Duplicating Edison's Iconic Invention for Light's Golden Jubilee

Edison didn’t just develop the device, but marketed it.

Life Among the Little People of Dwarf Empire
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Engrid Barnett

Life Among the Little People of Dwarf Empire

You must be 4 feet 3 inches or shorter to work here…

The Lucha Libre Silent Serial Killer You’ve Never Heard Of: La Dama Del Silencio
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The Lucha Libre Silent Serial Killer You’ve Never Heard Of: La Dama Del Silencio

By day she wore the pink butterfly mask of a lucha libre wrestler.

The Mutant of Dance’s Unbelievable Moves
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Colton Kruse

The Mutant of Dance’s Unbelievable Moves

His signature move is to grab his windpipe and shift it from one side of his throat to the other.

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Endurance Shipwreck Found 106 Years After Antarctic Sinking

The water's frigid temperatures kept the ship in remarkable condition.

Endurance Shipwreck Found 106 Years After Antarctic Sinking

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The Uncanny Case of the Jim Twins, Two Estranged Twins Who Led Identical Lives

They unknowingly forged lives as identical as their DNA.

The Uncanny Case of the Jim Twins, Two Estranged Twins Who Led Identical Lives

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The Medical Mystery of Tarrare, a Cannibalistic French Spy

Tarrare was the walking manifestation of one of the seven deadly sins as he prowled the cobbled streets of 18th-century Paris indulging his endless hunger.

The Medical Mystery of Tarrare, a Cannibalistic French Spy

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Ripley's Cartoon of the Day

Sunday Cartoon! - January 5, 2025

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An Apple-1 Computer from 1976, one of the first 200 computers ever built by Apple, sold at auction in November 2021 for $500,000.

Ripley's Cartoon of the Day

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!

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