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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Still, it must have been a pretty great bonding experience; according to the magazine, Cady Garey is the namesake for Mean Girls’s main heroine, Cady Heron. Fey chose to play a math teacher in ...

To many people, mental illness is only when one loses their mental and behavioural organisation. This has led to the common labelling as being ‘mad’, and the purported causes include ...

Whether it’s Anthony Hopkins’ empathetic portrayal of dementia in “The Father” or Kirsten Dunst’s depiction of existential depression in “Melancholia,” mental illness can make a ...

The sight of mothers sitting on the couch in the evening, phone in hand, can lead to accusations of mindless scrolling.

On the heels of Suicide Prevention Month, it seems increasingly crucial to address a pressing issue that affects an entire generation: the mental health crisis among members of Generation Z.

“She was like, ‘I’m gonna go get Simone,’” Lee recalled of Chiles, 23, in an interview with Glamour published on Thursday, October 3, calling it a “mental breakdown.” Biles, who had ...