<P> Ripley first called his cartoon feature , originally involving sports feats , Champs and Chumps , and it premiered on December 19 , 1918 , in the New York Globe . Ripley began adding items unrelated to sports , and in October 1919 , he changed the title to Believe It or Not . When the Globe folded in 1923 , Ripley moved to the New York Evening Post . That same year , Ripley hired Norbert Pearlroth as his researcher , and Pearlroth spent the next 52 years of his life in the New York Public Library , working ten hours a day and six days a week in order to find unusual facts for Ripley . </P>
<P> Ripley first called his cartoon feature , originally involving sports feats , Champs and Chumps , and it premiered on December 19 , 1918 , in the New York Globe . Ripley began adding items unrelated to sports , and in October 1919 , he changed the title to Believe It or Not . When the Globe folded in 1923 , Ripley moved to the New York Evening Post . That same year , Ripley hired Norbert Pearlroth as his researcher , and Pearlroth spent the next 52 years of his life in the New York Public Library , working ten hours a day and six days a week in order to find unusual facts for Ripley . </P>
when did ripley believe it or not start
when did ripley believe it or not start
October 1919
October 1919