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Curious Creatures Crawl on over to Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada!
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Mantis Shrimp One of the most curious creatures to call Ripley's Aquarium of Canada home is the beautiful, yet ruthless, mantis shrimp. Believe it or n...
Mar 13, 2018
Why Do the Numbers on a Roulette Wheel Add Up To 666?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Devil's Game: Roulette Perhaps one day, while gambling away your children's inheritance in some nameless casino someone told you that Roulette was inve...
Mar 13, 2018
A Closer Look At Lily Slippers: Achieving A Three Inch Foot
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Unlocking our Cabinet of Curiosities, "Ripley's Rarities" takes you up close and personal with some of the most interesting exhibits collected by Ripley's ...
Mar 13, 2018
Photographing the Dead and Grieving with Spirit Photography
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Post-Mortem Photography With mortality rates for children under five sitting above 40% in the mid-1800s, death was commonplace but no less heartbreaking. A...
Mar 13, 2018
Snow joke: Weatherman named Meteorologist runs for office
LANCASTER, Pa. - A former TV weatherman who legally changed his name to Meteorologist Drew Anderson says there’s a 100 per cent chance he’ll run for Congress in Pennsylvania under the new ...
Mar 13, 2018
Loblaw criticized for personal information requests in gift card roll out
Loblaw Companies Ltd. isn’t providing details as to why some Canadians have been singled out with requests to hand over additional personal information to secure their $25 gift card related to t...
Mar 13, 2018
Amber Alert lifted for missing 10-year-old Montreal boy
Montreal police cancelled a Quebec-wide Amber Alert in the case of a missing 10-year-old boy late Tuesday, but the search for Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou was continuing. Police said they made the decision t...
Mar 13, 2018
Higher public debt has helped slow build-up of household debt: Bank of Canada
OTTAWA - The federal government’s steps to amass more public debt have helped Canadians avoid an even faster build-up of their personal debt loads, even though such household burdens have still ...
Mar 13, 2018
Madonna to direct film on dancer Michaela DePrince's life
LOS ANGELES - Madonna is pirouetting back into the director’s chair. MGM Motion Picture Group president Jonathan Glickman says Tuesday that the pop music icon will direct a film based on ballet ...
Mar 13, 2018
El Salvador court commutes 2nd woman's abortion sentence
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - El Salvador’s Supreme Court has commuted the sentence of a second woman serving a prison sentence for what she said was a miscarriage. Mayra Veronica Figueroa Marroqu...
Mar 13, 2018