Skip to main content
Mental Floss
Amanda Green|
For over a century, a controversy has been brewing over what might be called the Loch Ness Monster of dialect study: the elusive singular “y’all.” There are a few who claim to have seen it in the wild, and many who denounce such claims as nonsense. Does i
Arika Okrent|
The First World War was an unprecedented catastrophe that shaped our modern world. Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 142nd installment in the series.
Erik Sass|
On a cart in Anna Dhody’s office sits a small, innocuous box marked “caramel Danish rolls.” Open it up, though, and you won’t find a pastry; instead, there’s a human skull nestled inside. Nearby, there’s another cardboard box—this one labeled “brain slice
Erin McCarthy|
Miss Cellania|
Nick Greene|
In theory, pizza is easy to make. Throw some sauce and cheese on some dough, make it hot and voila. The innumerable lousy slices out there in the world, though, suggest that pizza’s also really easy to easy to screw up.
Matt Soniak|
Nick Greene|
Do the animals we label as “cute” fight with each other? Most of the time, the answer is yes. Sometimes the fights are kerfuffles of snorts and grunts and sometimes they’re bloody and violent, but one thing is clear: adorable animals have aggression too.
Joy Lanzendorfer|
Pop Chart Lab's latest poster is bursting with musical marks that will make musicians of all stripes tremolo with joy, turn after inverted turn. Even viola players have reason to celebrate: the chart even gives the maligned alto clef some much-deserved lo
Lucas Reilly|
You’ve probably met a few perfectly normal people who happen to have the exact same name as some celebrity. Maybe you’re one of them. It’s a common problem. In fact, sometimes, this’ll even happen to a pair of famous figures.
Mark Mancini|
Some bees don’t really do any work at all.
Matt Soniak|
Here's what the Internet looked like 21 years ago.
Chris Higgins|
Chris Higgins|
Clair McLafferty|
Sean Hutchinson|
Last season CenturyLink Field was awarded the Guinness World Record for the loudest open-air stadium in the world. Why, exactly?
Nick Greene|
Anyone can find the Golden Gate Bridge or Alcatraz, but if you’re willing to embrace the unknown, you’ll find that San Francisco is full of hidden gems.
Editorial Staff|
As a business, it was a complete mess. But in terms of football the way we know it today, the WFL was a very forward thinking league.
Lane Strauss|
'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' is the best known book from C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. But it's not the first.
Joy Lanzendorfer|
PreviousNext