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We give you an obscure word with four definitions—one correct, three made up. Can you identify the correct one?
Hundreds of thousands of people were killed and wounded as a result of the bombings, but true counts are difficult to estimate. A contemporary source suggests 135,000 were killed or injured in ...
The original Broadway cast recording is nearly 2.5 hours long and features more than 20,000 words. To celebrate 10 years of Hamilton on Broadway, we’re testing how well you know them. The ...
The search trends break down into three broad categories: ...
Sorry to residents of—or anyone planning a trip to—Wichita, Kansas. The city has been named the allergy capital of the United ...
Wolves are helping Yellowstone’s aspen trees grow tall again after decades of overgrazing.
No slang term for an occupation has supplanted the original job title more than cop. While the media and official documents may stick to the multi-syllable “police officer,” the majority of people ...
As it turns out, 911 misdials are often the result of so-called “butt dials” (inadvertent calls owing to a phone being ...
If you have the time, swinging by the front desk on your way out may save you a bit of money and make someone else’s day a ...
Here’s the complete list of the top 20 greenest cities around the world: If you’re in the U.S., you may want to visit these ...
Mental Floss talks to Jennings about his new Kennections book, the wrong ‘Jeopardy!’ answer that haunts him, and what he’s ...
There’s technically only one correct way to say ‘biopic.’ But the wrong pronunciation has a pretty compelling rationale behind it.