10 Pieces of Playground Equipment that Nearly Killed Your Grandparents
These vintage playground devices were so perilous, kids of yesteryear were lucky to live through recess.
These vintage playground devices were so perilous, kids of yesteryear were lucky to live through recess.
From possessed dolls and Bloody Mary to the Bunny Man and the Jersey Devil, here are the origins of 18 famous scary stories.
On April 15, 2019, the world watched Notre-Dame burn. Two years after the fire, the famous cathedral in Paris, France, is on its way to reopening to the public.
People throughout history have kept personal diaries. More unusual, however, are those who wrote their diaries in secret code.
Ahead of Mother’s Day, read up on the women who provided support, inspiration, words of wisdom, and tough love to some of your favorite novelists, as seen in Mental Floss’s new book, 'The Curious Reader: A Literary Miscellany of Novels & Novelists,' out M
Princess Diana's famous royal wedding dress—with its 25-foot train and 10,000 pearls—isn't often seen by the public, but a new exhibition at Kensington Palace promises to change that.
The iconic brass pole has been a fixture of fire departments for more than a century, but it might be more dangerous than it's worth.
This very German word became embedded in the American vernacular—but not before German politicians tried to ban kindergarten entirely.
When Charles Boycott tried to evict struggling Irish farmers during a famine, they ran him right out of Ireland.
Join us. Perhaps you can help solve a mystery—or at least dive into the mysteries behind 'Unsolved Mysteries.'
On March 18, 1990, two men—dressed as police officers—talked their way into the side door of Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Less than 90 minutes later, they had pulled off the largest art heist in history—which remains unsolved to this day.
The Underground Railroad conductor honed her wilderness skills around the cabin her father built in the 1840s.
The free Baalbek Reborn app transports armchair travelers to the year 215 CE to see some of the Roman Empire’s most ambitious buildings.
Scientists and historians have made incredible finds—from the oldest human-made art to long-lost shipwrecks—in the 20 years since Mental Floss began.
Southpaws are most often talked about in baseball and boxing. But which sport (if either) coined the term?
From 1953 to 1970, United Airlines offered a daily flight out of New York that catered exclusively to male passengers. The National Organization for Women (NOW) was having none of it.
The origins of phrases aren’t always very clear, but this one is—and it all started with carnival barkers.
Sally Ride and Maya Angelou are the first two honorees, but you can help decide which other important women from history to feature on the collectible coins.
The Great Pyramid, the Great Sphinx, and the rest of the Giza Plateau’s many wonders are a few clicks away.
A lot has changed between the 19th century and today, but one thing that hasn't is the plethora of available parenting advice—though the following tips would likely make today's parents scratch their chins.
For more than a century, legal experts have argued that Sacco and Vanzetti didn't get a fair trial. Here are the facts in the landmark case.
'The People V. The Klan' is a four-part CNN Original Series about the courageous story of Beulah Mae Donald, a Black mother in Alabama who brought down the Ku Klux Klan for the brutal murder of her son.
Lake Nyos was once known by locals as the “good” lake. But one night in 1986, it was responsible for one of the deadliest natural disasters in African history.