Mental Floss

NEWS

Windsocks can tell you which way the bise blows.

Geographers and climatologists have a goody bag full of wonderful words that get super specific about wind.

Arika Okrent








Novelists have used everything from real killers to newsworthy hostage situations to literal white whales to craft their fiction.

Erin McCarthy




Scare crows may deter crows and blackbirds, but you'll have to make some modifications for them to really work.

Mark Mancini