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Where Does Astronaut Poop End Up? (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by speckx 12 days ago | past | 2 comments
The Reason Why There Are No Mosquitoes at Disney World (2018) (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by Tomte 38 days ago | past
A Revealing History of Lotto Scratch-Offs (2016) (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by indigodaddy 43 days ago | past
The quest to find and save the Vasa (2019) (mentalfloss.com)
25 points by areoform 55 days ago | past | 9 comments
What Is 'Dead Weight'? (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by bookofjoe 56 days ago | past
The Most Important Scientist You've Never Heard Of (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by CHB0403085482 77 days ago | past
Why a U.S. Federal Court Ruled That Marvel's X-Men Aren't Humans (2017) (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by tosh 3 months ago | past | 2 comments
How Do Igloos Keep People Warm? (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by Ozarkian 3 months ago | past
How Do Igloos Keep People Warm? (mentalfloss.com)
3 points by paulpauper 3 months ago | past
The True Story of the Southwick Jog (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by thunderbong 5 months ago | past
Where Did the Term '86' Come From? (mentalfloss.com)
3 points by thunderbong 6 months ago | past | 2 comments
The Surprising Reason Hotels Have Ice Machines (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by thunderbong 6 months ago | past
Brigido Lara, the Artist Whose Pre-Columbian Fakes Fooled Museums (2017) (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by janandonly 6 months ago | past
Why Do We Vote in November? (mentalfloss.com)
3 points by ohjeez 6 months ago | past
[flagged] The long history of the word 'weird' (mentalfloss.com)
17 points by drdee 8 months ago | past | 18 comments
Things to Do When Your Pet Goes Missing (mentalfloss.com)
5 points by qiakai 10 months ago | past | 1 comment
The 'pay phone bandit' who baffled the FBI in the '80s (mentalfloss.com)
180 points by gmays 10 months ago | past | 62 comments
The Most Common Last Name in Every Country (mentalfloss.com)
9 points by gmays 11 months ago | past | 10 comments
Why Do We Call Kindergarten Kindergarten? (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by alraj 11 months ago | past
When Crispin Glover Was Replaced by a Lookalike in 'Back to the Future II' (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by bredren 11 months ago | past
Linguistics Terms You Didn't Learn in School (mentalfloss.com)
6 points by alraj 11 months ago | past
Out of This World: An Oral History of Alf (2016) (mentalfloss.com)
2 points by Tomte 11 months ago | past
Why Do So Many Maple Syrup Bottles Have a Tiny Little Handle? (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by elsewhen 11 months ago | past
Olestra Fat-Free Snack Controversy of the 1990s (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by segasaturn on April 23, 2024 | past
William Shakespeare's Sister, Joan, Emerges in Long-Lost Writings (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by rntn on April 3, 2024 | past
Secret Code Words You Might Want to Know (mentalfloss.com)
3 points by makerdiety on April 3, 2024 | past
The Great Rebus Craze of 1937 (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by EndXA on March 28, 2024 | past
The Dreaded "Tell Me About Yourself" Question During a Job Interview (mentalfloss.com)
1 point by makerdiety on March 25, 2024 | past | 1 comment
A Brief History of Zork (mentalfloss.com)
13 points by makerdiety on March 14, 2024 | past | 1 comment
Are Blueberries Blue? The Answer Is Surprisingly Complicated (mentalfloss.com)
3 points by bookofjoe on Feb 17, 2024 | past | 2 comments

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