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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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

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

Gyros consist of a pita wrap containing meat ( usually pork and beef in Greece, while lamb is more common in the U.S.) sliced ...

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

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