The Ancient Origins of the Names of the Days of the Week A journey through ancient calendars, astrology, and timeless traditions.

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4 Dickens Christmas Stories Most People Have Never Heard Of Such was the success of 'A Christmas Carol' that the four festive stories Dickens published in the following years have been largely overlooked.

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4 Dickens Christmas Stories Most People Have Never Heard Of...

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12 Famous Quotes Everyone Misattributes Though widely shared on the internet and other places, these popular quotes weren’t actually spoken by who you might think they were.

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4 Major Misconceptions About Congress, Debunked Do members of congress get paid during government shutdowns? And do they get free health insurance? Let’s get to the bottom of some common myths.

I learned things! #USCongress #HouseOfRepresentatives #USSenate #MentalFloss

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7 Misconceptions About the Gilded Age This particular time in history proved that all that glittered was certainly not gold.

Fun listicle from #MentalFloss about #TheGildedAge

"By 1890, America’s richest 1% owned 40% of the country’s wealth, and 44% of the country shared a mere 1.2% of wealth...a time of 'a widespread feeling of unrest and brooding revolution.'”

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10 Social Media Abbreviations That Stump People the Most According to research on monthly internet search volume, Americans get confused by these common abbreviations.

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Gone are the days when everything we say is written out in full. Some of it...

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6 Ways to Celebrate the Autumnal Equinox The first day of fall is the perfect time to get a little pagan.

Happy Autumnal Equinox! 🍁 🍁 🍁
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Florida and the United States’ second most dangerous beach is Laguna Beach, with a score of 67.75. Located on the Emerald Coast of the Florida panhandle on the Gulf of Mexico, Laguna has recorded just nine shark attacks but a staggering 39 surf-related fatalities—the most on this list—that lead to its second place ranking.

I dunno if #MentalFloss is good or bad or indifferent. Never paid any attention. Just saw a link to an interesting article, & once I started reading, noticed that they're not the sort of feckless morons who think one bratty orange turd can change the name of the #GulfOfMexico

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Palestinians stripped to their underwear in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza Dec 2023 Inmates imprisoned at CECOT at Tecoluca, El Salvador March 2025

What we allow and co-commit abroad comes back for us all at home.

Historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social calls this failure to see what's plainly before us the "spinach in our teeth." He himself decries genocide of Ukrainians, but is still silent on educide & #genocide in Gaza #mentalfloss #spinach

Good distraction for the night. #Trap on #Netflix. Better than #ElectricState (tho not as good soundtrack). #pause #mentalfloss #maintains #maintainsanity #movies

18 Facts About <em>The Wizard of Oz</em> 'The Wizard of Oz' is an often-imitated but never-duplicated cinematic treasure that remains an integral part of childhood 80 years after it first enchanted audiences in theaters.

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My tweet from September 3, 2015:

17 Wonderful (and Not-So-Wonderful) Facts About #TheWizardofOz:

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Warning: you must have a cast-iron stomach to view this video. #BrainBleach #MentalFloss

Trying to figure out #bluesky ~ It’s been calming to come here at the end of the day ….

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I'm re-watching every single episode of The Whites Kids You Know 🇺🇸🗽😎🤣✌️ until it is over
#MentalFloss moment.
That's in addition to every Anthony Bourdain's shows. 4 years to go in this I will ignore you and all your minions self imposed challenge

A jigsaw puzzle featuring a variety of butterflies on a white background.

Done! Lots of fun (and some cursing). #mentalfloss

8 Books About Historical Cannibalism You might want to skip dinner after reading these.

Thanks #mentalfloss, although the interview snippet about sampling human tissue makes me sound like Hannibal Lecter's science nerd brother. It was actually a small piece of cooked placenta w/ a plateful of veggies, not someone's head. #cannibalism #books #popsci www.mentalfloss.com/books-about-...