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Try wrapping your head around these facts.

Need an interesting fact to drop at parties? Look no further.

Medicine has evolved dramatically over the last century, but that doesn’t mean unexplainable medical anomalies have disappeared. We’re covering a few of them in the latest episode of The List Show.

In the latest episode of The List Show, we’re diving deep into a few of our favorite phrasal gaffes, from death nails and tenderhooks to bold-faced lies and beyond.

Don’t be surprised to see wild wallabies hopping around the UK.

Some words you use pretty often actually came from the names of people.

In the latest episode of The List Show, we’re covering some eponyms you might not have realized were eponyms, from ‘mesmerize’ to ‘pants.’

From the fastest and biggest animals to the creatures with the strongest schnoz and the longest leap.

We love museums devoted to art, history, and science as much as the next person—but sometimes, our curiosity demands quirkier territory.

What exactly is a flop? To us, it’s something that arrived with great fanfare and big expectations, then ate pavement—hard. We’re covering just a few in the latest episode of The List Show.

In this episode of The List Show, Mental Floss editor-in-chief Erin McCarthy is covering works of art that went missing but were thankfully recovered—in the case of a couple of paintings, twice.

From the long legs of the jerboa to basically everything about the duck-billed platypus, evolution has taken some weird turns.

From breathing to tying your shoes, there are many everyday actions you could be doing differently.

Time capsules can hold anything from historic writings to Diana Ross’s fake eyelash.

A Scottish wildcat, likely with some domestic house cat mixed in.

These fluffy, scaly, and feathered friends will be missed.

13 Historical Figures You Probably Didn't Learn About

From pirate queens to groundbreaking stunt pilots to the guy who gave us kitty litter, we’re covering a whole bunch of overlooked historical figures in the latest episode of The List Show.

Sometimes, wars end when someone’s kettle gets broken.

If the sun were the size of a basketball, the Earth would be no larger than a pinhead.

This island may look mysterious, but it isn’t a phantom island.

Old maps are littered with islands that have vanished. What happened to these strange and unexplainable lost lands? Did they ever exist in the first place?

Throw the grammar rulebook out the window.

We’re taking Strunk and White and grammarians everywhere to task in the latest episode of The List Show.

Want a bachelor’s degree in cannabis business? You can earn one from Oaksterdam University.

This image would have made no sense prior to the 1970s.

CPR, Post-It notes, and ciabatta bread were all invented way later than you might assume.

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.

You’re probably not pronouncing that word correctly.

Sorry to break it to you, but ‘mischievous’ isn’t “miss-CHEE-vee-uss,” and ‘boatswain’ isn’t “BOAT-swain.” We’re breaking it all down in the latest episode of The List Show on YouTube.

Mountaineers making their way to the summit out Mount Everest.

From the world’s tallest peaks to its deepest lakes and beyond

From the Macon Whoopees to the Piedmont-Westernport Drybugs and beyond.

16 Surprising Facts That Seem Like Lies

3 Unsolved Medical Mysteries

5 Phrases You’re Probably Saying Wrong

6 Fascinating Marsupial Facts You Probably Didn’t Know

5 Common Terms You Didn’t Know Were Named After People

17 Wild Animal Superlatives

The Best Offbeat Museum to Visit in All 50 States

10 of History's Greatest Flops

8 Stolen—Then Recovered—Pieces of Art

6 Strange Animal Evolutions

28 Things You’re Probably Doing Wrong

17 Mysterious Time Capsules

8 Animals That Recently Went Extinct

13 Fascinating Historical Figures You Probably Didn’t Learn About in History Class

6 of History’s Silliest Wars

11 Space Facts That Will Change Your Perspective

8 Mysterious Phantom Islands

6 Grammar Rules You Can Break

12 Quirky Colleges and Learning Institutes

26 Things That Are Younger Than You Think

6 Super-Rare Medical Conditions

15 Words You Think You’re Pronouncing Correctly (But You’re Probably Not)

29 Geographical Superlatives That Will Change How You See the World

11 Defunct Sports Teams