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 ...

For a brief but tumultuous time in 1961 and 1962, Americans were consumed by the potential for a thermonuclear interruption of life as they knew it. While that decision was out of their control, there ...

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 ...

But there are a handful of specific airport landings that will have even the most confident flyers filled with fear. The fear factor of scary airport runways can come from a few different elements: ...

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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 ...

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

See how Becky Clapshaw brought her “Animal Crossing” island to life in LEGO form.

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In a galaxy far, far, far away, astronomers have found the oldest black hole in the universe. It sits at the center of the ...