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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.