Mental Floss

BIG QUESTIONS



It’s hard to put a price tag on home.

Earth may be the most precious place we have, but it isn't priceless. We know because one scientist did the math.

Michele Debczak


Karl Aspelin, Public Domain // Wikimedia Commons

As is often the case when you look back into history, there’s more than one possible answer. But one of the leading contenders has a fairly predictable culprit: the Puritans.

Jake Rossen












You rang?

Cats and “Pspsps” go together like toddlers and the crinkling wrapper of a candy bar that you were trying to eat in secret. What gives?

Ellen Gutoskey