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Crazy Eddie's Insanely Successful Criminal Enterprise (mentalfloss.com)
4 points by areoform on Dec 14, 2021 | past | 1 comment
Why Reading Aloud Helps You Remember More Information (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by ofou on Nov 28, 2021 | past
A Brief History of Zork (2014) (mentalfloss.com)
3 points by Tomte on Nov 17, 2021 | past
The Westphall Theory of a Unified TV Universe (2017) (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by ecliptik on Oct 2, 2021 | past
Clair Patterson, a scientist who helped eliminate leaded gasoline (mentalfloss.com)
3 points by Edmond on Sept 21, 2021 | past
No One Wanted A&W's Third-Pound Burger (2016) (mentalfloss.com)
126 points by ZeljkoS on Sept 14, 2021 | past | 261 comments
25 Years Ago: When Macarena Ruled the World (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by ajoy on Sept 1, 2021 | past
One grieving father got lawn darts banned (2012) (mentalfloss.com)
4 points by putzdown on Aug 23, 2021 | past | 8 comments
Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Donating Your Body to Science (2019) (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by marconey on July 8, 2021 | past
What's the Real Origin of “OK”? (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by unreal37 on July 7, 2021 | past
The Tommy Westphall Theory of a Unified TV Universe (2017) (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by adrian_mrd on May 23, 2021 | past | 1 comment
Decimal Time: How the French Made a 10-Hour Day (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by thunderbong on May 11, 2021 | past
How a West African Lake Killed 1800 People (mentalfloss.com)
5 points by kawera on April 11, 2021 | past
How a Working-Class Couple Amassed a Priceless Art Collection (2013) (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by CaptainZapp on March 13, 2021 | past | 1 comment
Cereal Transformed American Culture (2013) (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by tux1968 on March 7, 2021 | past
Theodore Roosevelt's “The Man in the Arena” (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by Etheryte on March 3, 2021 | past
CTRL and Alt and Delete (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by manikandarajs on Feb 26, 2021 | past
Why Are There 5,280 Feet in a Mile? (mentalfloss.com)
3 points by singhkays on Feb 26, 2021 | past
Why Did People Wear Powdered Wigs? (mentalfloss.com)
3 points by vinnyglennon on Feb 24, 2021 | past
How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work? (mentalfloss.com)
6 points by Gedxx on Feb 1, 2021 | past
20 Cognitive Biases That Affect Your Decisions (mentalfloss.com)
19 points by ErikVandeWater on Jan 5, 2021 | past | 3 comments
Traumatic License: An Oral History of Action Park (2018) (mentalfloss.com)
22 points by CaptainZapp on Jan 1, 2021 | past | 12 comments
When Julius Caesar Was Kidnapped by Pirates,He Demanded They Increase His Ransom (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by laplacesdemon48 on Dec 20, 2020 | past
Anti-Pasta: When Italian Futurists Tried to Ban Pasta in Italy (mentalfloss.com)
112 points by prismatic on Dec 15, 2020 | past | 108 comments
Wipe Out: When the BBC Kept Erasing Its Own History (2017) (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by elvis70 on Dec 11, 2020 | past
Person with damage to the right brain hemisphere can develop a “joke addiction” (mentalfloss.com)
7 points by LeviIsaac on Dec 8, 2020 | past
The Mysterious Bronze Objects That Have Baffled Archeologists for Centuries (mentalfloss.com)
9 points by zeristor on Nov 29, 2020 | past
Forty Foot High Spite Fence (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by kyleShropshire on Nov 25, 2020 | past
The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE (mentalfloss.com)
3 points by evo_9 on Nov 9, 2020 | past
100 Years on a Dirty Dog: The History of Greyhound (2013) (mentalfloss.com)
36 points by never-the-bride on Nov 6, 2020 | past | 39 comments

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