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|title=A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert 'Believe It or Not' Ripley

|sort=Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert 'Believe It or Not' Ripley, A

|publisher=Random House

|date=June 2013

|website=http://www.nealthompson.com/

|video=ZbiYOCjmFaA

|summary=A biography of the creator of the 'Believe It Or Not!' cartoons, radio and TV show, which exploited the public's fascination for trivia on all subjects

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Robert LeRoy Ripley was indeed a curious man. He throve on curiosity, his own and that of everyone else. By exploiting and never underestimating the public demand for trivia, and by being in the right place at the right time just as the news and broadcasting media were beginning to develop in America into the unassailable forces they were by the end of the century, he became one of the most successful men of the age.