100 Words Turning 100 This Year
Join editor-in-chief Erin McCarthy as she journeys into the past to dig up a whopping 100 words that are turning 100 this year in our all-new Mental Floss List Show.
Join editor-in-chief Erin McCarthy as she journeys into the past to dig up a whopping 100 words that are turning 100 this year in our all-new Mental Floss List Show.
It was left there on purpose in the 1990s.
They're not really falling from the sky—but the reality is perhaps even more disturbing.
It starts out easy and gets progressively harder.
You're not going to like this.
Glitter and fart spray are a lethal combo.
Now streaming on YouTube and Hulu.
Would you rather have Daenerys or Cersei as an enemy?
It's reportedly been home to a murder, suicide, and Aleister Crowley.
On Ada Lovelace Day, celebrate the woman who wrote the first computer program.
See Tom get angry.
Less Felix, more Fluffy.
Universality strikes a balance between order and randomness.
The answer: Really bizarre.
If you are sick or injured, the treatment isn't usually in your kitchen pantry—despite what your grandmother may have told you.
Traditional pasta recipes are dying out, but one woman is making videos to preserve them.
Some people try to save themselves from more mowing sessions by cutting their grass super, super short, but this actually has the opposite effect than intended.
We look into what neuroscience has to say about ASMR, or autonomous sensory meridian response—one of YouTube's most popular subjects.