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Paramount Home Video

Can you dig it?

Matthew Somerville

Birmingham programmer Matthew Somerville just blessed Londoners with an amazingly helpful tool.

Warner Home Video

The cult comedy turns 35 years old today—you hoser!

Shaunacy Ferro, Mental Floss

Algae have circadian rhythms, too.

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

Billy Wilder co-wrote the script with Raymond Chandler—and they hated working together.

GWS

It sat in storage for almost a decade.

Warner Bros. Studio Tour London—The Making of Harry Potter

Beware of Death Eaters.

Photo illustration by Mental Floss. Milk Cartons: Courtesy of the National Child Safety Council. Background: iStock.

The idea was to protect children, but those billions of crime-stopping milk containers wound up scaring the crap out of them instead.

PunkToad, Flickr // CC BY 2.0

Polymath Park brings together four Wright-related homes not far from Fallingwater.

iStock

Nearly 2800 locations across the U.S. will ditch single-use bags in the next few years.

Film Rise

Decades after these segments aired, the producers behind the show are still wondering what happened.

iStock

The crustaceans are scaring off the insect's natural predators.

Dog shown actual size.

Here's why you're drawn to puppies, babies, dollhouses, micro-homes, and tiny supermarket foods in tiny grocery carts.

iStock

Regretful pet owners can drop off their fish, no questions asked.

Tyler Golden, Netflix

Netflix's fake-true crime series returns for a second (and poop-centric) season on September 14.

iStock

Tell your old backpack to take a hike.

Christie's

The portrait looks like it could be centuries old, but it was created by an algorithm.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

The spacecraft will use a robotic arm to scoop up a sample of Bennu and then return it to Earth.

iStock

This discovery could have life-saving applications.

Unicorn root growing in a field

Surprise!