🐟 Fur-Bearing Fish?!

#1 – The White House Once Had a Presidential Cow

Reporters often saw her roaming the White House lawn.

As America gears up to celebrate its 250th birthday, plenty of presidential history is getting another look, but not every White House story involves speeches, scandals, or state dinners.

Some involve milk.

Believe It or Not!, one of the most famous residents of President William Howard Taft’s White House was not a politician, a diplomat, or even a dog. She was...

#2 – The Fur-Bearing Trout: Fact, Folklore, or Fuzzy Fish Tale?

Meet the trout so well-prepared for winter; it supposedly grows a thick, luxurious coat of fur.

Known as the fur-bearing trout, this bizarre aquatic oddity has been the subject of tall tales, hoaxes, and head-scratching speculation for over a century. While most “specimens” are clearly just rabbit fur glued to taxidermied fish, that hasn’t stopped the legend from swimming its way into the annals of weird wildlife folklore...

#3 – When Nature Calls… Ripley’s Acquires Iconic ‘Ace Ventura’ Rhino

From 'Ace Ventura' to the Ripley's collection!

Ripley’s Believe It or Not! World Entertainment is no stranger to iconic Hollywood pieces. From Star Wars® blasters™ and Lightsabers™ to Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates, and so much more, there is no shortage of movie madness in the Ripley’s collection.

That’s why when the giant rhino from Jim Carrey’s comedic blockbuster Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls came across the Ripley’s Exhibit team’s desk, it only made sense to grab it by the horn!...

#4 – When Nostalgia Was Considered a Deadly Illness

The dark history of how nostalgia was understood by early medicine.

Ah, nostalgia. It’s Spice Girls dolls, Delia’s catalogs, and MySpace for the Millennials out there, but go back a few centuries, and nostalgia wasn’t a sentimental yearning for the past. Rather than bittersweet memories, nostalgia was considered a much bleaker feeling. Believe It or Not!, in the 17th century, Swiss physician Dr. Johannes Hofer described nostalgia as a “neurological disease of essentially demonic cause.”...

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