Journey to the Monarch Mosh Pit
Each fall, millions of migrating monarchs return to Mexico to wait out winter. The gathering makes Woodstock look like a business conference. Here’s how they get there.
Each fall, millions of migrating monarchs return to Mexico to wait out winter. The gathering makes Woodstock look like a business conference. Here’s how they get there.
A.J. Jacobs shows that although privacy may be endangered in the digital age, we’re still better off than many of our ancestors. In the past, everyone was all up in your business.
Unless you want to start a boxing match with kangaroos, don’t steal pebbles from Australia's Uluru formation.
These words found new meanings on a foreign exchange adventure and returned home with a fresh perspective.
Bodie, California, was once home to one of the richest gold deposits in the state. Now, it's abandoned in a state of "arrested decay."
It’s possible to get the pants from too much honeyfuggling. Spark some conversation with these vintage and regional terms.
No one likes to hear that they’re doing something wrong, but … you’re doing it wrong. Making simple tweaks to everyday tasks could lead to an easier life, time saved, and far less frustration.
These strange, spooky cemetery tales of vampires, ghosts, and bloody headstones will keep you up at night.
Until recently, all of these plants and animals were assumed missing or extinct. Now, they're making a glorious comeback.
Brave the cobwebs and you might just discover why one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. Thanks to nostalgic collectors with money to burn, many of the items that were once everywhere have now skyrocketed in value.
The ubiquitous packaging is everywhere, from cereal to deliveries to impromptu cat beds. But where did it come from?
YouTube’s favorite dermatologist, Dr. Sandra Lee—a.k.a. Pimple Popper—tells Mental Floss in her own words how she got her start, the hazards of the job, and why people love her videos.
Thomas Jefferson thought mastodons might still be lurking somewhere out West—and he was determined to find them.
Is being an I.N.F.J. a load of C.R.A.P.? That depends on who you ask. But the majority of Fortune 100 companies don't seem to mind.
Starting today, you can find a special edition of Mental Floss magazine in a Barnes & Noble near you.
For 50 years, 'Sesame Street' has taught kids how to count, how to spell, and that not all vampires are scary.
Browse our dossier of questions that have probably come to you in the shower. (Including why thoughts often come to you in the shower.)
When you really think about how recent some discoveries we take for granted are, Pluto and Clint Eastwood have a lot in common.
Dame Sibyl Hathaway protected her people with the unlikeliest of weapons: Feudal etiquette, old-world manners, and a dollop of classic snobbery.
By some estimates, malaria has killed half of everyone who has ever lived—and it almost took down one former president.
We look into what neuroscience has to say about ASMR, or autonomous sensory meridian response—one of YouTube's most popular subjects.
According to Klemtu's residents, the hairy, human-like creatures have always been there, in the dense forests and remote areas across the nation’s traditional territory.
The Confederate Army general's death stumped his doctors—but now we might have a clue about what happened.
Just behind Lincoln's hairline sits a massive chamber. What's inside may never be seen by human eyes again.