Jazz Up Your Vocabulary With Mental Floss’s 2025 Word Nerd Desk Calendar
Our 2025 word-a-day calendar covers old-timey slang terms, fascinating phrase origins, and more.
Our 2025 word-a-day calendar covers old-timey slang terms, fascinating phrase origins, and more.
A year’s worth of facts can be found in this desktop-friendly calendar.
The end of the holiday season can also mean the end of a marriage for many couples.
Ever wonder why the new year officially starts on January 1? Turns out, you can thank Pope Gregory XIII—and Julius Caesar.
Celebrate the spookiest time of the year with these top-rated Halloween advent calendars.
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Eve may be over, but Thomas Crapper Day is on the horizon.
Bad guy Hans Gruber takes a tumble off Nakatomi Plaza in this hilarious ‘Die Hard’ advent calendar.
Need a daily dose of trivia for TV favorites like 'The Sopranos' and 'Stranger Things'? Pick up the new Curious Viewer Calendar.
The last week of February is packed with palindromes, the most anticipated of which is 2/22/22, or "Twosday."
Which punctuation did Cormac McCarthy hate? Which sci-fi series inspired ‘Outlander’? Those answers and more, coming to a desk near you.
According to his tombstone, Thomas Lambert was born in in May 1683 and died in February of the same year. It wasn't a mistake, but instead a quirk in the calendar.
If your Tuesday feels like a Thursday, you're not alone. Here's why we've lost access to our internal calendars.
Happy leap year! You can thank Julius Caesar and his buddies for bringing them to Europe more than 2000 years ago.
We’ve been adding an extra day to February since Julius Caesar overhauled the Roman calendar and implemented leap years in 46 BCE.
Nobody can seem to agree on whether the new decade began on January 1, 2020, or if it actually begins on January 1, 2021.
The palindrome party starts now with 9-10-19 and doesn’t stop until next Thursday, 9-19-19. After that, you’ll have to wait until 2111.
The Romans referred to the days of the month by their relation to the 'Kalends,' the 'Ides,' and the 'Nones.' If Caesar had been killed any other day, his famous warning might have sounded much less ominous.
Because we could all use an extra push sometimes.
Today, people around the globe will feel uneasy about getting out of bed, leaving their homes, or going about their normal daily routines, all because of a superstition.
Who needs computers or calendars when you've got your brain?
It used ten-day weeks...until Napoleon gave it the axe.
The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service has added a leap second to the calendar on December 31.
Leap Day comes just once every four years. Here's a list of eight events that occurred on this rare day.
Louise Estes has given birth to three children on three consecutive Leap Days. Was it fate, or careful planning?