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Mental Floss's writers and editors share their favorite stories from 2022.

New Year’s Eve in Times Square is one of the most famous traditions in New York City. Learn how Manhattan's most colorful party came to be.

In 1972, filmmaker Joyce Chopra welcomed her daughter into the world—and invited all the world to see in her groundbreaking documentary, 'Joyce at 34.'

Before Nathan Fielder and Sacha Baron Cohen pushed the boundaries of performance art, Alan Abel was able to convince media and the public of just about anything, including his own death.

From its first steps out of the primordial sludge of the ARPANET days to its current role as a vessel for cat videos and Netflix, we're taking a look at just some of the most important moments in internet history.

The Video Game History Foundation is unloading duplicate copies from its magazine vault—including an issue of 'Nintendo Power' #1.

The glossy pages of most catalogues and magazines can be recycled along with the rest of your paper products.

Larry Flynt and Hugh Hefner—two titans of titillation—were never close. But a paper trail shows that Flynt may have wanted to see the 'Playboy' founder suffer a case of lead poisoning.

Mental Floss's first print cover featured Albert Einstein’s tongue, and our first Instagram post was about Rice-A-Roni. Would we do it differently today? Of course not.

Dolly the sheep was the first animal cloned from a single adult cell—and raised a lot of questions about the future of human cloning.

The pioneers of fake news reflect on nearly 30 years of Elvis, aliens, and a half-human, half-bat child that earned them a very angry phone call from the very real FBI.

In this edition of 'Throwback,' we're revisiting the history of the VCR, learning why it took 'E.T.' six years to hit home video, and discovering how Tom Cruise helped change the format forever.