Wearing your favorite old pair of camouflage shorts on a Caribbean cruise could put a real damper on your vacation.

Welcome to Kennections, a weekly quiz created by ‘Jeopardy!’ host and champion Ken Jennings. Welcome to Kennections, a weekly quiz created by Jeopardy! host and champion Ken Jennings. Here’s how to ...

A widow’s peak is a noticeably v-shaped point to the front of a person’s hairline, with the tip of the v typically aligning with the center of their forehead. As many as a third of people have a widow ...

That line of thinking seemed to hold until the summer of 1961, when a highly-regarded public figure began to implore American families to pursue fallout shelters. The advocacy didn’t come from any ...

These little spaces often spark curiosity and nostalgia, though few people know their history.

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The first 13 states listed below were the original 13 colonies. Their so-called statehood dates are the day they ratified the ...

Among linguists today, the story of Humboldt’s talking parrot is often considered the perfect embodiment of the fragility of language: if a language has not been recorded in some way, as soon as ...

September 30, 2025, will be the day AOL finally hangs up its dial-up service. According to the company’s statement, the ...

Hundreds of thousands of people were killed and wounded as a result of the bombings, but true counts are difficult to ...

With 1985 now 40 years gone, Mental Floss is taking a look at the people who were making headlines and emerging as cultural ...

Over a decade later, Yokoi’s seed of an idea would grow into Nintendo’s Game Boy, a deceptively simplistic device that proved ...