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Have a cozy night indoors with these relaxing candles.

You don’t have to spend a fortune to enjoy a cozy night in with the best soy wax candles from Mrs. Meyer’s, Homesick Candles, and other top brands.

Lauren Dana
Love gives you a boost in several ways.

Love can have some pretty great perks: the emotion offers mental and physical benefit to our bodies. Here are eight aspects of life that get a boost when our hearts are full.

Jennifer Billock








These little cats aren't short on cuteness, that's for sure.

Munchkin cats are often compared to dachshunds because of their unique size. Discover more facts about these adorable felines here.

Kirstin Fawcett








'Clatterfart' and 'twattle-basket' are way more entertaining than 'chatterbox.'

We all know someone who never seems to stop talking. They’re a yammerer, a babbler, a chatterbox—but they’re also a blatherskite, a clatterfart, and a twattle-basket.

Paul Anthony Jones
A number of factors go into the price of truffles.

To figure out a little bit about why truffles are so expensive, Mental Floss talked to Vittorio Giordano, the Vice President and Truffle Guru at Urbani Truffles USA.

Hannah Keyser
Kazuo Ishiguro at the Hay Festival 2010.

Kazuo Ishiguro was 27 years old when he published his first novel, 1982’s ‘A Pale View of Hills.’ Since then, he has left an indelible mark on literature through works that the Nobel Prize committee described as “novels of great emotional force.”

Erin McCarthy