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Ripley's bizarre empire began with a sports cartoon
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Before it became a chain of dusty museums filled with shrunken heads, it was just filler material. Robert Ripley was a sports illustrator scrambling for content on a slow news day in 1918, so he rapidly sketched a bunch of obscure athletic trivia and titled it 'Champs and Chumps.' The editors loved it, and an empire of the bizarre was born.
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