Do you know how many species of bats actually drink blood? / Mik122/iStock; Justin Dodd/Mental Floss People used to believe that the blood of the freshly executed was a health tonic and would pay ...

Roborock and Mental Floss have teamed up to provide easy tips that will help you keep your home as hair-free as can be, whether you own pets or not. Avoid hair—both pet and human—from building ...

See if you can decipher this twisted tune. / Roman Samborskyi/Shutterstock (Dancing Man on Disco Ball), Sunward Art/Shutterstock (Musical Notes) In Tune Twist, we run the lyrics of a hit song ...

In our latest word game, we’re challenging you to fill in the blanks and figure out the words. In each of these words, there are only two missing letters—e.g., if the example is HA__ __OW ...

Faith Roswell Joined: Sep 30, 2024 Faith Roswell is a self defense educator, former true crime researcher, award winning blogger and, sea monster nerd living on a boat in London, England. Her book ...

If you ever freeze after hearing something go ‘bump’ in the night, you’re not alone. / Williams+Hirakawa/GettyImages Picture how you might react if a stranger ...

More people get to witness Virginia’s beauty in fall. / photo taken by Chad M. Connell/GettyImages Color blindness, also known as color vision deficiency, is a primarily inherited condition that ...

In the 1997 hit film Good Will Hunting, local guy Chuckie (Ben Affleck) walks up to a Harvard student at the bar and tells her remembers her from his history class. The audience knows it’s a lie ...

The tallest mountain on Earth keeps getting taller. You might think Mount Everest, nature’s most imposing skyscraper, would shrink by a few millimeters each year due to erosion or other factors.