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Cool Bookstores and Libraries You Can Spend the Night In (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by vinnyglennon on Jan 30, 2024 | past
Words and Phrases That Are Their Own Opposites (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by anyonecancode on Nov 18, 2023 | past
12 (Non-Sexual) Uses for 900 Numbers in Decades Past (mentalfloss.com)
3 points by thunderbong on Nov 4, 2023 | past
Why Does Japan Have Blue Traffic Lights Instead of Green? (mentalfloss.com)
4 points by latexr on Sept 24, 2023 | past | 2 comments
How Scientists Working in Antarctica Inadvertently Developed a New Accent (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by aditya on Sept 18, 2023 | past
Scientists Working in Antarctica Inadvertently Developed a New Accent (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by bryanrasmussen on Sept 16, 2023 | past
The Violent Shootout That Led to Daryl Hall and John Oates Joining Forces (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by thunderbong on Sept 12, 2023 | past
Indiana Once Tried to Change Pi to 3.2 (2016) (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by michelangelo on Sept 7, 2023 | past
Why did old phone numbers start with letters? (2015) (mentalfloss.com)
87 points by thunderbong on Aug 31, 2023 | past | 142 comments
The Crew of the Enola Gay on Dropping the Atomic Bomb (mentalfloss.com)
3 points by nixass on Aug 30, 2023 | past
Do 'Close Door' Buttons in Elevators Do Anything? (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by thunderbong on Aug 30, 2023 | past | 1 comment
The Apollo Astronaut Who Was Allergic to Moon Dust (2017) (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by redbell on Aug 20, 2023 | past
Do Your Bowels Suddenly Spring to Life in Bookstores? – Mariko Aoki Phenomenon (mentalfloss.com)
3 points by austinallegro on Aug 14, 2023 | past
Wondrously Unusual Castles from Around the World (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by vinnyglennon on Aug 6, 2023 | past
Ambush of Tigers, Murder of Crows (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by Vadim_samokhin on July 28, 2023 | past | 1 comment
There Are Only 25 Blimps Left on Earth–Here’s Why (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by thunderbong on July 22, 2023 | past
The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Spuds MacKenzie, the Original Party Animal (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by thunderbong on July 22, 2023 | past
Brigido Lara's Pre-Columbian Fakes Fooled Museums Around the World (2017) (mentalfloss.com)
3 points by walterbell on July 16, 2023 | past
Mister Rogers Saved the VCR (mentalfloss.com)
8 points by thunderbong on July 5, 2023 | past | 1 comment
Hunter S. Thompson's Daily Routine (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by areoform on June 23, 2023 | past
46 Books That Changed the World (mentalfloss.com)
8 points by alraj on June 15, 2023 | past | 5 comments
How Barnum Brown Discovered ‘T. Rex’ and Became History’s Greatest Fossil Hunter (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by bryanrasmussen on April 4, 2023 | past
Fictional Companies Owned by Microsoft (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by ohjeez on March 12, 2023 | past
The History of the Trapper Keeper (mentalfloss.com)
3 points by mindcrime on Feb 27, 2023 | past
A Brief History of Zork (2014) (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by Tomte on Feb 9, 2023 | past
Why Can't Some People See Magic Eye Pictures? (mentalfloss.com)
4 points by mooreds on Feb 7, 2023 | past | 2 comments
History of Fotomat (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by coloneltcb on Feb 3, 2023 | past
Roosevelt's “The Man in the Arena” (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by mhb on Dec 9, 2022 | past
Peanut Butter Glows in the Dark (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by clockworksoul on Nov 23, 2022 | past
Doomed Facts About the SS Edmund Fitzgerald (2018) (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by tamaharbor on Nov 10, 2022 | past | 2 comments

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