Cereal has been a staple breakfast item for decades, going back to early adopters like John Harvey Kellogg, who developed the breakfast food to promote healthy digestion. Today, there are still ...

Drive down almost any major highway in the United States, and you’ll probably see a number of giant advertisements asking if ...

When you think of the best movies of all time, many from the 1960s are always going to stand out. They remain classics, whether you want a fun heist or you need something with a little romance. Just ...

Wake up your sleepy brain this Sunday with trivia covering history and beyond. Happy Sunday, readers! It might be the laziest day of the week, but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad time for trivia.

Pricey schools in the Northeast pushed the region higher among all states when it comes to in-state tuition. Vermont leads the country with the highest average in-state annual tuition at $18,094, the ...

Juliana the Great Dane received not one but two Blue Cross Medals for different heroic acts, yet her story was almost forgotten entirely.

There are typically two grooves for the latch to rest in, letting you pump hands-free. The groove closest to the nozzle will pump gas slowly, while the second groove speeds up the process.

Then there were songs that never really felt finished. “ Hotel California ” by The Eagles is one of the most iconic classic ...

We recently kicked off our Trivia of the Day series here at Mental Floss, going back in time to put our readers’ knowledge to the challenge on what happened on this day in history. August 29 is a ...

George Ivan 'Van' Morrison was born at 125 Hyndford Street in Bloomfield, Belfast, Northern Ireland, in August 1945. He was given his first guitar at the age of 11 and taught himself to play from a ...

To play Travis Bickle in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, De Niro went out and got a real New York City hack license—the same paperwork any working cabbie needed—and started taking real fares.

Some of the biggest current music legends either started out in the ‘80s or made it big during the decade. It’s an era of ...