When you roll down one rear window while driving, the car essentially turns into a massive version of an empty soda bottle. Blow across the top of that bottle, and it’ll make a note. That’s because ...

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 ...

These names show up in Disney movies and shows, and they also happen to be some of the most popular baby names today.

Sorry to residents of—or anyone planning a trip to—Wichita, Kansas. The city has been named the allergy capital of the United ...

No slang term for an occupation has supplanted the original job title more than cop. While the media and official documents ...

If a plane ticket and hotel stay are out of your budget, a paperback book (or a loaner from the library) can help transport ...

Wolves are helping Yellowstone’s aspen trees grow tall again after decades of overgrazing.

Mental Floss talks to Jennings about his new Kennections book, the wrong ‘Jeopardy!’ answer that haunts him, and what he’s ...

The Freeling family’s haunted home from ‘Poltergeist’ is now a vacation rental, starting at $800 a night. The haunting of the fictional Freeling family terrified moviegoers when Poltergeist was ...

Over a decade later, Yokoi’s seed of an idea would grow into Nintendo’s Game Boy, a deceptively simplistic device that proved Nintendo could stretch beyond its 8-bit console system. The Game Boy also ...

Hundreds of thousands of people were killed and wounded as a result of the bombings, but true counts are difficult to estimate. A contemporary source suggests 135,000 were killed or injured in ...

As it turns out, 911 misdials are often the result of so-called “butt dials” (inadvertent calls owing to a phone being ...