Bethel Afful

Joined: October 11, 2022 Oct 11, 2022

Bethel Afful is a video producer and editor for Mental Floss. Previously, she worked as an architect in Washington, D.C. She’s a video game nerd, a music nerd, a food nerd … yeah, she’s just a nerd. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram @bethelafful.

Get the facts straight about your favorite AI chatbots.

There’s a lot people get wrong about the Central Intelligence Agency.

Yes, you can have a Facebook page and still join the CIA.

The world of medicine is even stranger than you can imagine.

From Alice in Wonderland Syndrome to the real-life version of Benjamin Button’s disease, these rare conditions could come straight out of a storybook.

The Oregon Trail had 4 to 10 percent death rate, which is lower than you might assume if you’ve played the computer game.

Gen Z isn’t as tech-savvy as you might assume.

Think members of Gen Z are lazy slacktivists? Think again.

Those famous white statues weren’t originally white—and that’s just one myth about Ancient Greece we’re covering in the latest episode of Misconceptions.

From London to Beijing, you may not know as much as you think about these world-class cities.

In this episode of The List Show, host and Mental Floss editor-in-chief Erin McCarthy breaks down some commonly confused pairs.

This episode of The List Show is all about why we say what we say—from the poem that gave us ‘albatross around your neck’ to the hands that gave us ‘hands down.’