education - Trivia, Quizzes, and Brain Teasers | Mental Floss

12 Educational Facts About the Recorder

katleho Seisa/iStock via Getty Images Plus

12 Educational Facts About the Recorder

The 20 States With the Best Public School Systems in America

Smart kids!

The 20 States With the Best Public School Systems in America

The 20 Most Educated Cities in America

tiny-al/Getty Images

The 20 Most Educated Cities in America

This New Zealand School Is Using a Chicken as a Traffic Officer

A traffic chicken is patrolling a New Zealand preschool.

This New Zealand School Is Using a Chicken as a Traffic Officer

These 8 MasterClass Courses Will Get You Out of Your Netflix Funk

Chef Gordon Ramsay is just one of the professionals lending their knowledge to a MasterClass course.

20 Online Colleges and Universities That Offer the Best Return On Your Investment

damircudic/iStock via Getty Images

Want to See the World? CheapTickets Will Pay Your Student Loans for a Year So You Can Travel

There's a gondola in Venice with your name on it.

11 Rare Children's Books from the Library of Congress

Denslow's Humpty Dumpty

Why Do We Call Kindergarten Kindergarten?

Kindergarten survived some early controversy to become part of the American education system.

41 Wonderful Facts About Mister Rogers

PBS Television, Getty Images

7 Tips for How to Read Faster (and Still Understand What You Read)

Follow these tips to increase your reading speed.

Several Historically Black Colleges and Universities to Receive $650,000 Grant to Protect Their Campuses

Marcus Ingram/Stringer/Getty Images

12 Facts About Shirley Chisholm, the First Black American Woman to Run for President

Shirley Chisholm led a groundbreaking career.

You Can Get a Unicorn Hunting License From Michigan’s Lake Superior State College

A 1602 fresco by Domenichino showing Giulia Farnese with a unicorn.

Texas High School Has Opened a Student-Run Grocery Store for Families in Need

Mehrad Vosoughi, Pexels

How The Oregon Trail Took Over Computer Labs in the '80s and '90s

Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons