Americans have a strong preference for what they want to eat before they shuffle off this mortal coil.

But of all the English language’s possible sources of difficulty, easily confused and muddled word pairs—from there and their to e.g. and i.e. —surely rank among the most troublesome. Now, a new ...

Boston’s Fenway Park is full of criminals. In the state of Massachusetts, it’s technically illegal to swear at or otherwise insult athletes or officials during sporting events. That would make ...

Because basements are partially below grade, or under the ground, an egress window is often installed near a window well, which provides space to maneuver once a person has exited through the window.

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

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 ...

We give you an obscure word with four definitions—one correct, three made up. Can you identify the correct one?

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

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

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

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

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