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

Over the decades, Disney has enlisted some of Hollywood’s best talents to bring its animated characters to life on screen.

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

First, pour about a half-gallon of water into an aluminum pan. Mix a bit of dish detergent into the water, and slosh it around with your hand. Shine a desk lamp, preferably one that can direct light ...

A science fiction writer called it an “artifact of such utter simplicity and perfection that it seems it must be either the ...

To make the map below, Instacart analyzed potato chip orders made between June 28 and July 4 of 2024. Local potato chip ...

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

Recently, Mental Floss broke down the state names that Americans find the hardest to pronounce, based on a study by language learning website Preply. As part of ...

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