In 2004, the editorial staff of the music magazine Blender named “We Built This City” the “worst song ever,” topping a list ...

From a Yosemite icon to a Grand Canyon hidden gem, there are epic waterfall hikes to be found across the country.

They were likely “members of a raiding party who were captured and subjected to capital punishment,” the authors write, and “that the severed upper limbs were trophies taken from the bodies of enemies ...

Consumers are being warned their frozen shrimp may have something in common with the Chernobyl disaster: a radioisotope.

Joint inflammation, which is more commonly known as arthritis, can have debilitating effects on people. But, hey, if you’re young, you won’t have to worry about it, right? Sorry, but the idea that ...

Blue Spring State Park in Florida rounds out the top three state parks for picnics. The site is home to two separate picnic areas, both with accessible covered pavilions and grills. These pavilions ...

We give you an obscure word with four definitions—one correct, three made up. Can you identify the correct one?

In Tune Twist, we run the lyrics of a hit song through multiple languages, then translate them back into English. Here’s a ...

While some people may define literacy in strict terms as proficiency in reading comprehension, there’s often much more to it than that. To be literate opens the door to parse information, think and ...

The San Diego-Carlsbad area in California trails behind, with the CPI change reaching .80 percent in the last two months and ...

Recently, Mental Floss broke down the state names that Americans find the hardest to pronounce, based on a study by language ...

If eating fresh fruit makes your mouth tingle, you might have this little-known (but very treatable) condition.