How Do Rocks, Metal, and Other Foreign Materials Get Into Our Food?
A bacteria-related food recall is troubling but understandable. It’s a little weirder when one involves golf balls.
A bacteria-related food recall is troubling but understandable. It’s a little weirder when one involves golf balls.
The novelist endured a crash in East Africa. Then his 'rescue' plane went down, too.
From turtle mating to what really turns big cats on, animal sex can be a lot weirder (and funnier) than you probably expected.
We’re currently living in the year 1725, not 2023. At least, that’s what adherents of the Phantom Time Hypothesis would have you believe. The historical conspiracy theory alleges that the years spanning from 614 to 911 CE never actually happened.
'The Persistence of Memory' is the most recognizable work by Salvador Dalì, who painted it in the midst of a hallucination.
Sometimes a truck unloads its cargo unexpectedly early.
Let’s take a roadtrip through the country, with stops at a self-flushing latrine, a collection of human brains, and much more.
Indulge your urge to be a huge hater without hurting anyone’s feelings.
Gabriel Green explained that “I’m running for president because I was asked to do so by emissaries from outer space.”
An exploding corpse, a 45-minute car chase, and a horse-related mishap that led to a century-long royal tradition. In this episode of The List Show, host Justin Dodd covers funerals gone wrong.
It was once socially acceptable for an unhappily married wife to stone her husband to death while he hid in a hole.
From animal glands to radioactive water, these odd anti-aging cures involved more scheme than science.
A bear walking on its hind legs and sporting baggy skin has led to a wild theory.
Trillions of neutrinos zoom through you every second. Here's what you should know about these mysterious, nearly mass-less subatomic particles.
It's like if you crossed a shark with a xenomorph.
Many people report fearing clusters of holes. If you're one of them, this post is for you. But don't say we didn't warn you.
It involves one man’s obsession with Peter Pan, the Emily Brontë novel ‘Wuthering Heights,’ and Meat Loaf.
If you guessed someone would suggest ‘Gritty Sitty,’ you are absolutely right.
The late film critic had an open mind, but one 2010 film caused him to throw in the towel.
You may think you detest the word ‘moist’ because of the way it sounds, but research indicates that that’s not the full story.
From prehistoric animals that lived much closer to us temporally than you might realize to the guillotine lasting way beyond the French Revolution, these facts are to mess with your perception of time.
Is a hot dog a sandwich? What about a burrito? It depends on whom you ask—and what state you live in.
In 2018, a mysterious stranger left roughly 20 vintage television sets at random doorsteps in Virginia. Then they struck again.
In the latest episode of The List Show, host and Mental Floss editor-in-chief Erin McCarthy shares 100 weird facts. Learn about solo synchronized swimming, Dildo Days, and Pope Francis’ past gigs. We know you’re curious.