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Time marches on. And no one knows it better than the ever curious Ripley staff. They have travelled many times around the globe gathering unusual facts on time such as you’ll read in this publication as well as many other fascinating subjects seen in the Ripley museums located in the US and abroad.

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Subjects covered in Ripley’s cartoons and text ranged from sports feats to little-known facts about unusual and exotic sites. But what ensured the concept’s popularity may have been that Ripley also included items submitted by readers, who supplied photographs of a wide variety of small-town American trivia ranging from unusually shaped vegetables to oddly marked domestic animals, all documented by photographs and then depicted by Ripley’s drawings.

In 1919 Ripley married Beatrice Roberts. He made his first trip around the world in 1922, delineating a travel journal in installments. This ushered in a new topic for his cartoons: unusual and exotic foreign locales and cultures. Because he took the veracity of his work quite seriously, in 1923 he hired a researcher and polyglot named Norbert Pearlroth as a full-time assistant. In 1926 Ripley’s feature moved from the New York Globe to the New York Post.

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