

Jake Rossen
Joined: May 6, 2013
Jake Rossen is a senior staff writer for Mental Floss.




If you plan on going on a Toys 'R Us crime spree, you might want to stop using your Rewards card.
These tributes to fallen soldiers may not be as instantly recognizable as the Vietnam Memorial and others, but their stories are no less fascinating—including one that doubles as a mausoleum right in Manhattan.
It's pumpkin spice season, which means plenty of pumpkin spice lattes and, depending on where you live, a real curiosity about pumpkin spice ramen noodles.
Merging with high-speed traffic is always risky, but these highways make it even more difficult.
The prying tool's distinctive name may come from its resemblance to a certain bird's beak. (Or not.)
Tired of sock holes and dull kitchen knives? Some companies are looking out for you.
Cats sometimes act like a bowl of water is something to approach with extreme caution. There’s a reason for it, though.
One chirping sensor near your stove isn’t going to cut it.
The textured ceiling pattern was all the rage in the 1950s. Then things got bumpy.
Your meat-filled leftovers have a very short shelf life once your power goes out.
Teddy Ruxpin, a battery-operated talking bear created by a Disney engineer, became one of the biggest toys of the ’80s. But there would be no talking his way out of bankruptcy proceedings.
We need burial space equivalent to the size of Philadelphia to accommodate our dead. We don't have it. What now?