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The Unbelievable Robert Ripley

Robert Ripley believed there is an infinity of strangeness in the world and capitalized on it to his advantage. Or as he might have told his legion of admirers, paraphrasing the entertainer Al Jolson, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.” A newspaper cartoonist who parlayed a child-like sense of wonder and curiosity into a personal fortune, he […]