Remembering Muzzy, the Clock-Eating Alien Who Haunted ’90s Kids
If you watched television in the 1990s, you probably saw an ad for a green blob that could teach you French.
If you watched television in the 1990s, you probably saw an ad for a green blob that could teach you French.
The researchers analyzed search engines, search data, and social media in hopes of turning up evidence of time travelers.
In 1975, Bum Farto had it all. A dead body and a drug deal gone wrong changed everything.
Losing your nose ring in the shower is a bummer. It’s not an emergency.
From Celine Dion’s “erotic motorcycle” to the crafty female platypus who faked a pregnancy in order to bust out of the Bronx Zoo, 2023 was full of some pretty great stories.
Exolangs are constructed languages that imagine how the languages of extraterrestrial beings might look and sound—and linguists have come up with some pretty mind-bending options.
Once again, Mental Floss readers proved to be curious about all sorts of niche topics—and our editors and writers were happy to oblige their interests.
From a profane parrot to an exploding corpse to swapped (and dropped) bodies, the funerals on this list went terribly awry.
From murder mysteries to secret societies and more, the best dark academia novels from Donna Tartt and other authors capture the macabre in the most unlikely of places.
Lingonberry jam and cream sauce are included, naturally.
One scam was convincing enough to fool George Washington.
Snail mating involves “love darts.”
The battery-powdered purr machines are part of the library's collection of unusual items available for lending.
The world's longest saxophone note is too risky to attempt. So is the world's longest kiss.
The Explorers Club keeps some odd artifacts in its collection, including a stuffed whale penis.
Though these marine mysteries are often solved, globsters—unidentified organic masses that wash up on beaches—continue to capture the public’s imagination.
Weird but fascinating facts about everything from the guy who dragged cars with his nipples to frogs shedding (and eating!) their own skin.
NYC311 has fielded calls involving everything from goats to ghosts.
Only three bat species, out of some 1100 in the world, actually have a taste for blood.
The ancient art of sword swallowing may seem like some sort of elaborate trick—but it’s very, very real (and very, very dangerous).
Being rich, famous, or influential has plenty of perks—but escaping the spirit world’s torments isn’t necessarily one of them.
Cut through the half-truths and urban legends to find out more about Friday the 13th, the unluckiest day on the calendar.
Some, like Harriet Beecher Stowe and Victor Hugo, believed they had communicated with spirits directly; others, like Nathaniel Hawthorne and Thomas Hardy, had ghostly encounters they couldn’t explain.
The rich history of the English language is full of similar directional words that are cool but uncommon, like ‘pancakewards,’ ‘couchward,’ and ‘pocketwards.’