robert ripley was as beloved as the amazing oddities featured in the Believe it or Not cartoons he drew for newspapers around the world and his radio and television shows. ripley became a celebrity whose popularity rivaled even first Odditroium in 1933 in chicago over two million fans flocked to the amazing human oddities and artifacts he collected from every corner of the planet. Ripley found ways to discover all was weird and wonderfull in the world - including the purchase of his own chinese junk the mon lei pictured in painting to the right (one rippley's few color paintings) the ship was rebuilt from an 1890s cargo junk.
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