🥩 Strange Food History

#1 – It's Here: Ripley's Believe It or Not! Wired Into Weird Is On Sale Now

The newest Ripley's annual is officially out — and it's packed with hundreds of all-new, all-true stories from around the world.

The wait is over. Ripley's Believe It or Not! Wired Into Weird, our brand-new annual book, is available now wherever books are sold!

We live in a moment where AI-generated content has everyone squinting at their screens, questioning what's real and what's fake. Wired Into Weird is our answer: hundreds of stories that are strange, spectacular, and 100% true. Every fact verified, every photo real. No filters, no deepfakes...

#2 – This Artist Paints With Barbie Dolls and Boxing Gloves

Most painters have a favorite brush. Jensen Dean has a favorite pair of boxing gloves!

Jensen Dean, an Australian artist, paints celebrity portraits out of objects borrowed from his subjects' own lives!

From dolls, dumbbells, and knives to whatever the face on the canvas has spent a career being known for. The tool isn't a gimmick bolted on after the fact. It's the starting point!...

#3 – Sink or Swim: The Suit Made of More Than 1,150 Corks

A dad from Riverside, Illinois, spent 130 hours turning wine corks into a wearable flotation suit!

Most people throw away corks... Kerry Haulotte kept them! Then he kept saving them until he had enough to build an amazing creation: a full suit made of more than 1,150 bottle corks.

The construction was slow. Kerry drilled a hole through each cork and threaded them together one by one, linking them like a string of pearls until the strands became panels and the panels became a suit...

#4 – 5 Foods Named After Real People: The Strange Stories Behind Them

A hungover stockbroker, a lust-fighting minister, and a maître d' whose cook went missing—meet the real people hiding on your menu.

You've likely eaten all five of these, probably dozens of times, and never once stopped mid-bite to ask, "Who was Benedict?" or "Why Rockefeller?" The answers are often stranger than the food.

Let's dive into the strange stories behind 5 foods named after real people!...

Wired Into Weird

In a world where AI-generated content has everyone second-guessing what’s real, Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Wired Into Weird proves that truth is still stranger than fiction. Packed with all-new, all-true stories from around the globe, this latest edition is bursting with incredible people, quirky animals, astonishing feats, remarkable places, amazing rarities, and strange-but-true facts. 

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