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. 2,137

About one in every 4 million lobsters is born with a rare genetic defect that turns it blue.

Hit me with the next fact

buzzing

  1. Help Write Our 5-Word Webby Speech, Win Prizes

    155 Comments
  2. A Drive Around London in 1926

    1.2K Likes
  3. 10 Hotel Secrets from Behind the Front Desk

    144 Comments
  4. What 11 Pairs of Eyeballs Watching a Movie Looks Like

    36K Views
  5. 36 Unusual Units of Measurement

    107K Views on YouTube

Is the Government Reading Your Email?

In an excerpt from their new book, D.B. Grady and Marc Ambinder offer 13 ways to tell whether the government is sniffing around your inbox.

THE KNOWLEDGE FEED

Article

Those hard-to-resist-Svengalis: Bela Karolyi

Article

Weekend Genius Challenge Winners!

Article

Punk be thy name

Article

The First Time News Was Fit To Print, XI

Article

The LOLCat Bible Translation Project

Article

In the Beginning: The Countdown Begins!

Article

5 Celebs Who Suffer from Aviophobia (and 1 who used to)

Article

October 15, 2007

quiz

5 Questions: Face Value

Article

THE Y-FILES, Part II: More Answers to Help Shut Your Kid Up!

Article

THE Y-FILES, Part I: Answers to Satisfy the Most Inquisitive 4-year old

Article

Weekend Genius Challenge: Solve these presidential anagrams and win a T-shirt!

Article

What's your inner time signature?

Article

First Caption Contest Finalists!

Article

Yet More "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks

Article

How Climate Change is Messing with Sports

Article

Last Call with Michael Stusser

Article

What I've Seen On My Commute

Article

Friday Happy Hour: Inheritances

Article

This really happens

Article

Seven Places To Stay In Dubai (If You Stay In Dubai Seven Times)

Article

Weekend Word Wrap: Pittsburghese

Article

October 12, 2007

quiz

5 Questions: Door Prize

Pages

  • « first
  • ‹ previous
  • …
  • 811
  • 812
  • 813
  • 814
  • 815
  • 816
  • 817
  • 818
  • 819
  • …
  • next ›
  • last »

Daily Floss

Morning Cup of Links

Colbert's Commencement Address

5 Questions

5 Questions: Now with "Wings"

Brain Game

Math Square #171

Lunchtime Quiz

How Many Vice Presidents Can You Name in 10 Minutes?

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.)