11 Monarchs Crowned While They Were in Diapers
Babies sure are cute. But do they make good world leaders? Here’s a peek at some of history’s youngest rulers and their reigns.
Babies sure are cute. But do they make good world leaders? Here’s a peek at some of history’s youngest rulers and their reigns.
Under J. Edgar Hoover, everybody who was anybody had an FBI file. Here are some interesting things we found while poking around their archives.
Many great rock songs have been the result of a lyricist finding inspiration in the pages of a book.
Despite photographic evidence and eyewitness accounts, these tales of time travel were too good to be true.
The big countries don't always bring home the gold or the glory. Here's a look back at Olympic performances from underdog nations.
If J.K. Rowling’s seven Harry Potter books left you hungry for more Hogwarts, you’re not alone. Fortunately, a whole bunch of totally unauthorized Potter novels have been published in other countries. To give you a taste of the kind of quality reads avail
You’ll need more than a map and a shovel to find these cultural gems. But trust us, it will be worth the effort.
The Oxford Dictionary Online is a warehouse of over 600,000 words. Despite this large arsenal, we continue to coin, clip, and blend new words into existence.
Though it wasn't an immediate hit, the network's tenacity paid off.
Abraham Lincoln’s personal secretary John Nicolay believed that no photograph could capture Honest Abe’s essence: “There are many pictures of Lincoln,” he said, “[but] there is no portrait of him.” Over 130 photographs of Lincoln exist—here are a few you
Olympic opening ceremonies have been known to include their own little quirks, disasters, and political flaps. Here are some of the most interesting.
To become an Olympic hero in our book, it takes more than athleticism. These athletes deserve infinite points—regardless of whether they medalled or not.
From A-Z, here are the full names of some of your favorite mononymous stars—and the reasons they dropped the rest of their names.
When it came time to collect their medals, these athletes said, "No thanks."
You wouldn’t know it with all the hype surrounding the Tokyo Olympics right now, but there are things more important than winning a medal. Just ask these athletes, who had good reason to sell their hard-earned precious metal.
Chances are, you've been humming these classic TV theme songs for years. Now you can get their lyrics stuck in your head, too.
What was your neighborhood corner drugstore Back In The Day, and is it still around?
Usually the government sticks to reality, but there are a number of times where agencies have investigated or weighed in on more mythical ideas.
Blame the media!
“Bladorthin the Grey” just doesn’t have the same ring to it as “Gandalf the Grey,” does it? Here are the stories of Gandalf and some other famous characters who experienced an identity change before publication.
Everyone knows that Stephen King was a janitor and Ransom Riggs shared creepy old photos on mentalfloss.com. What did some other famous writers do before their big breaks?
If you like sampling new beers or hate having money, you might want to try one of these budget-busting brews.
Facts become very easy to copyright when they aren’t true. Here are people, places and things that exist only on paper, solely to thwart would-be info burglars.
We’ve ranked our favorite fictional bears by your likelihood of surviving an unplanned run-in with them.