Sky Fashion: Amelia Earhart's Clothing Line
Amelia Earhart was a pioneer in the air, but she also had a knack for progressive women's clothing in a line she designed.
Amelia Earhart was a pioneer in the air, but she also had a knack for progressive women's clothing in a line she designed.
Cheesemakers have been adding yellow and orange food dye to their cheese products since the 17th century.
While names like Luna and Oliver rule these days—for both new babies and new pets—1922 looked a little different.
From really expensive NFTs to newly discovered shipwrecks to the latest developments in the world of K-Pop, here are a few things we learned in 2021.
From Universal Orlando's wild (and usually inoperable) 'Jaws' ride of the '90s to the very real—and very captive—tiger shark that threw up a human arm and sparked a 1935 murder investigation, the Mental Floss team is sharing some of our favorite stories f
Wain became famous in Victorian England for his exaggerated depictions of anthropomorphic cats, which he continued even after being declared certifiably insane.
The time capsule dates back to 1887 and was thought to contain an image of Abraham Lincoln in his coffin. Conservators found something else instead.
Were the Victorians really as humorless as they're portrayed? We're here to debunk some common misconceptions about the Victorian era.
How did Americans make money during the Great Depression? Some sold apples on street corners and others became migrant farmers. But about 2 million Americans tried to strike it rich another way: By doing puzzles.
In 1952, Carter—then a Naval officer—was lowered into a nuclear reactor to avert a disaster. His urine became radioactive.
On January 6, when Little Christmas—also known as Women's Christmas—rolls around, all bets are off in Ireland.
History may be written by the victors, but it’s high time some of history’s quieter contributors got the attention they deserve.
"It is a genial, festive season, and we love to muse upon graves, and dead bodies, and murders, and blood."
What exactly is the Witness Protection Program, and how does it work? Here's what you need to know about the secretive program.
From England to Japan, royal family members have been upending tradition and risking it all to be with the people they love for decades.
Polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 voyage to Antarctica was an epic failure, but he returned a hero.
It wasn’t always the most wonderful time of the year. In centuries past, Christmas was often violent, scary, and disgusting. So for all those Grinches who are skeptical of today’s Yuletide customs, be thankful you weren’t alive centuries ago.
Over the centuries, relic fragments of what are said to be St. Nick’s bones have been acquired by an impressive number of churches around the world.
When it came to endorsing the smallpox vaccine, Catherine the Great led by example (and then by telling her subordinates to vaccinate their villages).
For a large part of the 20th century, 'Grit' was a newspaper that focused almost exclusively on positivity, with a mandate to "suggest peace and good will towards men."
Eyam, England's drastic response to the plague—including quarantines and social distancing—influenced later medical practice.
'On the Road,' Jack Kerouac’s stream-of-consciousness travelogue, charts the adventures of Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty as they road trip across the United States. Here’s what you should know.
The magic trick of sawing a woman in half was first performed a century ago by P.T. Selbit, a British magician.
A precious copy of the U.S. Constitution fetched roughly $23 million more than its estimated value at auction.