Posts in category Ripley’s Rarities

University researchers say that sabertooth tigers scaled around 1000 pounds!

These involuntary corpses are responsible for more medicinal success than we can imagine.

Papyrus scrolls were used to record everything from religious texts like the “Book of the Dead” to receipts for grain and livestock.

This foot was so well preserved that its prints and nails remain intact!

Greek fire was said to burn when it came into contact with water or even mere sunlight!

You wouldn’t want to lose your lunch in the underworld…

These feather coils could contain up to 60,000 feathers.

More people listened to this dummy than listened to Orson Welles’s “War of the Worlds.”

Messages could take up to 16 hours to send (though this was still much faster than ships).

Before wristwatches and cellphones, gravity and sand were enough to keep time.