Skip to main content area

Mental Floss

Magazine Cover Get a RISK-FREE issue Give a Gift iPad Subscription

Main menu

  • Amazing Facts
  • Big Questions
  • Knowledge Feed
  • LIsts
  • Quizzes
  • Subscribe
  • Store
No. 2,068

The Rhodes Scholar program is named for De Beers founder Cecil Rhodes.

Hit me with the next fact

buzzing

  1. 11 Terrifying Images of Old Soviet Playgrounds

    1.5K Likes

  2. 5 Other Big Sites Bought by Yahoo!

    150 Likes

  3. 10 Hotel Secrets from Behind the Front Desk

    169 Comments

  4. 20 Artistic Takes on Disney Princesses

    333 Likes

  5. How a Working-Class Couple Amassed a Priceless Art Collection

    10.8K Likes

12 Things We've Enhanced With Caffeine

What's the buzz? Caffeine's now available in just about everything.

THE KNOWLEDGE FEED

List

Eight Strikes that Turned Ugly (or Inspired Keanu Reeves Movies)

Article

Best comments evar, vol. I

Article

Advertising: Call and Response

Article

Five Nobel Laureates Were Born (Plus 12 Other Things That Happened On This Date)

Article

On Music: Three Rock Stars who Died Choking on Vomit (and a 4th who might have)

Article

November 7, 2007

Article

Really awkward interviews...Another reason to love Sigur Rós?

quiz

5 Questions: Street Cred

Article

Trailer Parks, Video Games & Amway: How Sports Owners Made Their Money

Article

5 Island Vacations for the Truly Intrepid, Pt 2

Article

The wedding ring effect

Article

Feel Art Again: "An Election Entertainment"

Article

Vanity Cards

Article

50 Reasons to Subscribe to mental_floss (Reason #49, Werner Heisenberg)

List

Jellyfish

Article

Tuesday Turnip

Article

November 6, 2007

quiz

5 Questions: Held for Ransom

Article

Second Caption Contest Winner!

Article

Strike gets real, and new office digs=picket line

Article

Shel Silverstein's Unlikely Rise to Kid Lit Superstardom

Article

Let's Hear It For Squirrels

Article

The First Time News Was Fit To Print, XIV

Article

Ridiculous Board Games: Three Winners

Pages

  • « first
  • ‹ previous
  • …
  • 804
  • 805
  • 806
  • 807
  • 808
  • 809
  • 810
  • 811
  • 812
  • …
  • next ›
  • last »

Daily Floss

Morning Cup of Links

A Brief History of Trolls

5 Questions

5 Questions: Great "Scott"!

Brain Game

Second-in-Command

Lunchtime Quiz

Troy McClure Film or Actual Terrible Movie?

brilliant questions from you!

When and Why Did People Start Saying "Um"?
>
What Did Grover Cleveland Do Between Terms?
>
Why Aren't There B Batteries?
>
SUBMIT A QUESTION

we want your answers!

What's Your Dream Board on Jeopardy?
What Museums Should Everyone Visit at Least Once?

water cooler ammo

SIGN UP NOW
for our daily newsletter with exclusive nuggets of information guaranteed to amaze your coworkers and friends!
Follow us on Twitter

Get a Free Issue of Mental Floss Magazine

  • © 2012 Mental Floss
  • About
  • RSS
  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • Contact
  • Press
  • Advertising
  • Subscribe
  • Store
  • Give a Gift
  • iPad
  • Subscriber Services
  • Giveaways
  • Back Issues
Share to Facebook Share to Twitter
DID YOU KNOW? Marlon Brando hated memorizing lines so much that he posted cue cards everywhere to help him get through scenes. He even asked for lines to be written on an actress's posterior. (That request was denied.)