Today’s feature was a surprise to me. On this date in 1918, Robert Ripley published his first cartoon–Champs and Chumps. This is what began his world-famous Ripley’s Believe It or Not. That first cartoon featured strange but true facts about sports. It was a few months later that he widened the scope of his cartoons and began calling it the latter. My daughter loves Ripley’s Believe It or Not, and to a degree I like it (even if I feel they sometimes go a little too far). I guess human oddities do tend to intrigue humanity.
For more information:
http://famousdaily.com/history/ripley-believe-it-or-not-featured.html
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/On-This-Day–Ripley-s–Believe-It-or-Not—first-appeared-in-The-New-York-Globe.html