8 Ways You Can Prepare for a Coronavirus Outbreak
The CDC warns that Americans should start preparing for a coronavirus outbreak. Here's what you should know to keep yourself and your community safe.
The CDC warns that Americans should start preparing for a coronavirus outbreak. Here's what you should know to keep yourself and your community safe.
Insult a friend—or an enemy—by calling them a “bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog” or a “hoary-headed and toothless baboon.”
In 1985, Pizza Hut revamped their menu to include a double-crust pizza containing over one pound of cheese. It landed with a thud.
Standing six stories tall, Lucy the Elephant is a Jersey Shore icon. For three nights only, she'll be open to overnight guests through Airbnb.
Earlier this week, England’s Parliament announced that a secret door had been discovered in the walls of Westminster Hall. Inside, historians found “graffiti” left in 1851 by a bricklayer who was “fond of Ould Ale.”
Hashimoto created the Konami Code—up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start—to make it easier to test games he found too tough to play through.
If you want to figure out who the villain is in a movie, just check out a character's smartphone. According to 'Knives Out' director Rian Johnson, Apple won't let bad guys have iPhones.
Anybody who grew up playing the license plate game on road trips just might be a master at this quiz.
After being bathed in blue light, salamanders, frogs, and other amphibians glowed a brilliant green. There's more to these critters than meets the eye.
From 'The Wizard of Oz' to 'Poltergeist,' these movies were so troubled that they've developed a reputation for being cursed.
One of the biggest duos in pop music history, Daryl Hall and John Oates first encountered one another during a dance hall riot in 1967 Philadelphia.
Primary elections help us decide which presidential candidates will compete in the general election, but the processes vary by state.
As part of its zero-waste initiative, the Cincinnati Zoo is turning all the poop produced by its animals into fertilizer—including Fiona the hippo.
The April 15 tax deadline is unstoppable, but thankfully you can take up to 39 percent on TurboTax software by heading to Amazon.
Ice machines have become as pervasive in hotels as ironing boards. While they've always been there, the ice hasn't always been free.
For the first time ever, Netflix is sharing the most popular movies and TV shows on the site in the form of daily top 10 lists.
The car chase is a time-honored, frequently practiced piece of the language of action cinema, and the rise in digital wizardry in filmmaking has only helped to bolster its place on the big screen. Still, not all car chases are created equal; here are some
A New York animal shelter was gifted a tiny dog wheelchair after it posted about an adorable animal friendship on Facebook.
Mental Floss is hiring a part-time editorial assistant for our New York City office. We’re looking for a rabidly curious individual who is interested in contributing to various aspects of MentalFloss.com.
Definitions of 'pandemic' and 'epidemic' differ, but it’s not always clear which one best describes a disease outbreak like the new coronavirus.
On Tuesday, Feburary 25, Members of Scottish Parliament backed the first part of a bill that would make sanitary products like pads and tampons freely available.
The mellow duo Air Supply found success in the 1980s thanks to their easy-listening love songs. But one lyric was so strange it had to be revised.
What better way to have breakfast for dinner than by digging into a free stack of IHOP’s signature buttermilk pancakes?
It's a question that Americans have been arguing about for decades: How exactly do you pronounce Nevada?