Author Archives: Syndicated Content

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

Humans Inhale Credit Card-Sized Amounts Of Microplastics Every Week
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Humans are potentially inhaling a credit card-sized amount of harmful microplastics on a weekly basis, and new research published in the journal Physics of...
Jun 30, 2023

It’s A Whole New World: 2023 Is Disney’s 100th Birthday
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Pop the confetti, light up the fireworks, and grab your mouse ears-it’s time to celebrate! 2023 marks one hundred years of the Walt Disney Company ma...
Jun 29, 2023