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The Worst Industrial Disaster in U.S. History (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by surround on April 2, 2020 | past
Things Stolen from Libraries (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by Gedxx on March 3, 2020 | past
Signalman Jack: The Baboon Who Worked for the Railroad (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by happy-go-lucky on Feb 22, 2020 | past
Britain’s Last Great Auk (2018) (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by eaguyhn on Feb 22, 2020 | past
When did Americans lose their British accents? (mentalfloss.com)
145 points by reubn on Feb 10, 2020 | past | 105 comments
The Teenage Girl Gang That Seduced and Killed Nazis (mentalfloss.com)
8 points by weare138 on Feb 9, 2020 | past
The history of ctrl + alt + delete (mentalfloss.com)
7 points by ZguideZ on Feb 7, 2020 | past
The Ames Window (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by evo_9 on Jan 28, 2020 | past
The Trapper Keeper (2017) (mentalfloss.com)
64 points by Stratoscope on Jan 25, 2020 | past | 27 comments
Stephen King's Wife Saved Carrie and Launched His Career (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by rohmanhakim on Jan 23, 2020 | past
A Brief History of Mold-a-Rama (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by axiomdata316 on Jan 17, 2020 | past
Scotland's 35-Year Kilt Ban Backfired in Spectacular Fashion (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by antman on Jan 2, 2020 | past
Why did people wear powdered wigs? (mentalfloss.com)
3 points by softwaredoug on Dec 29, 2019 | past
The Santa Claus Bank Heist of 1927 (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by Edward9 on Dec 24, 2019 | past
Historical Parallels to Game of Thrones (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by utopian3 on Dec 18, 2019 | past
Why Medieval Castle Staircases Ran Clockwise (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by jonbaer on Dec 9, 2019 | past | 1 comment
Scurvy Was Cured, Then the Cure Was Lost (2010) (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by codesections on Nov 30, 2019 | past
Programmer Kept Sneaking into Apple to Finish the Job (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by cryptozeus on Nov 20, 2019 | past
Mammoth Poop Gave Us Pumpkin Pie (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by respinal on Nov 18, 2019 | past
Brief and Bizarre History of the Baby Cage (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by cryptozeus on Nov 16, 2019 | past
Syndrome K: The Fake Disease That Fooled the Nazis and Saved Lives (2017) (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by EndXA on Nov 15, 2019 | past
A More Accurate World Map Wins Prestigious Japanese Design Award (mentalfloss.com)
3 points by notlukesky on Nov 11, 2019 | past
The Grim Story of the Mackay-Bennett, the Titanic's Mortuary Ship (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by cryptozeus on Nov 11, 2019 | past
When 19th-Century Spiritualists Believed a “God Machine” Would Save Humanity (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by networked on Nov 7, 2019 | past
The Mysterious Bronze Objects That Have Baffled Archaeologists for Centuries (mentalfloss.com)
23 points by cryptozeus on Nov 4, 2019 | past | 7 comments
Dancing Tips from 1529 (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by michalu on Oct 21, 2019 | past
Wonderful Words with No English Equivalent (2015) (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by emptybits on Oct 13, 2019 | past
Facts About the Internet's Undersea Cables (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by La-ang on Oct 11, 2019 | past
Out of This World: An Oral History of Alf (2016) (mentalfloss.com)
33 points by mmastrac on Oct 10, 2019 | past | 16 comments
The Mysterious Bronze Objects That Have Baffled Archaeologists for Centuries (mentalfloss.com)
5 points by ahmadassaf on Sept 28, 2019 | past

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