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Sunrise at Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is basically the popular girl in high school that you can’t hate because she’s really nice and fun.

The official campaign portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

People throughout history have kept personal diaries. More unusual, however, are those who wrote their diaries in secret code.

'Grey's Anatomy' is the longest-running primetime medical drama on TV. Not bad for a show that creator Shonda Rhimes didn't think would get picked up for a second season.

Your favorite authors got support, words of wisdom, and sometimes tough love from their moms.

Ahead of Mother’s Day, read up on the women who provided support, inspiration, words of wisdom, and tough love to some of your favorite novelists, as seen in Mental Floss’s new book, 'The Curious Reader: A Literary Miscellany of Novels & Novelists,' out M

Everybody has a quirk or two—and that number goes way up for those in creative fields. Here are six writers and artists whose strange habits fueled their work.

(L to R): The Go-Go's—Gina Schock, Belinda Carlisle, Charlotte Caffey, Kathy Valentine, and Jane Wiedlin—pose during a 1985 photo shoot in Hollywood.

You know "We Got The Beat," "Vacation," and "Our Lips Are Sealed," but do you know the story of The Go-Go's—the history-making all-girl band behind the hits?

Get ready for the Kentucky Derby with these facts about Thoroughbred horses.

If you've ever watched the Kentucky Derby, you've seen a field full of Thoroughbred horses in action.

An FBI photograph of the crime scene after the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum robbery, as seen in This is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist (2021).

On March 18, 1990, two men—dressed as police officers—talked their way into the side door of Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Less than 90 minutes later, they had pulled off the largest art heist in history—which remains unsolved to this day.

Sir David Attenborough pictured in the Maasai Mara, Kenya, in David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (2020).

Netflix's 'Seaspiracy' and the BBC's 'Blue Planet II' make the list of the top-rated nature documentaries.

L to R: Wendi McLendon-Covey, Rose Byrne, Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, and Ellie Kemper star in Bridesmaids (2011).

In 2011, 'Bridesmaids' silenced chauvinists who believed that men had the monopoly on laughs and spearheaded a wave of female-fronted comedies. It also turned Melissa McCarthy into a bankable leading lady.

Across the United States and around the world, these delicious hot dogs take on different toppings and tastes.

A post-vaccine thumbs up is recommended.

Can you take Tylenol after your COVID-19 vaccine? What should you do with your vaccination card? Answers to those and more burning questions.

Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Spinoffs rarely outlive their original series, and they definitely don't eclipse them in terms of longevity. But 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' has been defying expectations for decades.

The Girl Scouts have a storied history, from a rivalry with the Boy Scouts to getting in trouble for campfire sing-alongs.

Growing fresh produce from scraps is easier than you may realize.

With a glass of water and a windowsill, you can regrow avocado pits, green onion ends, and other vegetable scraps into new plants.

Apple once tried to take a bite out of the video gaming market.

Plenty of consumer brands have abandoned their core market to try something new. Sometimes it works, and sometimes you wind up with Bic pantyhose.

The Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee.

Elvis Presley’s Graceland hasn’t changed too much since he lived there—the last record he ever listened to is still in the record player.

Nothing to see here—just a baby in a cage hanging out a window, taking in the air!

A lot has changed between the 19th century and today, but one thing that hasn't is the plethora of available parenting advice—though the following tips would likely make today's parents scratch their chins.

Meryl Streep with her Oscar for The Iron Lady in 2012.

Meryl Streep’s Oscars track record is impressive and perhaps impossible to beat, but Al Pacino might have the best chance of catching her.

Beulah Mae Donald in The People v. The Klan (2021).

'The People V. The Klan'  is a four-part CNN Original Series about the courageous story of Beulah Mae Donald, a Black mother in Alabama who brought down the Ku Klux Klan for the brutal murder of her son.