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It’s an amazing time to be a Doctor Who fan. It was recently announced that Ncuti Gatwa will be taking over the role of everyone’s favorite Time Lord following Jodie Whittaker’s final appearance as the Thirteenth Doctor later this year. Now, BBC has annou...
Nobel Prize winner, cosmologist, and swiss astronomer Didier Queloz firmly believes that we are not alone in the universe. He believes that mankind will face aliens within 30 years.Today, many people believe that in reality, life on other planets exists. ...
This article contains affiliate links to products selected by our editors. Mental Floss may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.Have you been waiting all winter long to get outdoors, feel the sun on your face, and ramble in nature?...
Experts declare a new End of the World: The Moon has convinced astrophysics that the Apocalypse is coming. The recent moon collision with an asteroid will soon lead to the death of all mankind, experts say.Last month, the Moon experienced a collision with...
Roughly half our readers call the United States home. To the rest, its a deeply familiar presence from pop culture. Yet even a land as extensively filmed, written about, and lived in as the US is capable of surprises. For all we may think we know the thir...
Does the prospect of a sunny Florida beach bore you? Are you looking for the thrill of the chaseor of being chased through unfamiliar streets? Ever wanted to see armed soldiers walking down the street? For the adrenaline-seeker or the outright foolish, so...
The Middle East was once thought of as a beautiful and exotic far-away land. But unfortunately for those of us alive in modern times, the term now conjures up images of war, terrorism, subjugation, and suffering. The vivid images of the Islamic Golden Age...
Paradoxes can be found everywhere, from ecology to geometry and from logic to chemistry. Even the machine youre using to read this list has paradoxes of its own. Here are 10 explanations of some of the lesser-known (yet still fascinating) paradoxes of the...
This article contains affiliate links to products selected by our editors. Mental Floss may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.Another school year is drawing to a close, which means graduation season is about to begin. If you know...
SMART NEWSOfficials Will Release Less Water Into Lake Mead Because of DroughtWater levels in both Lake Mead and Lake Powell have dropped to historic lows as the West experiences the most severe megadrought in 1,200 yearsLake Mead photographed from the Hoo...
SMART NEWSCool FindsAncient Roman Sculpture Likely Looted During WWII Turns Up at Texas GoodwillExperts are debating who the bust portrays, but they agree on one thing—a thrift store is an unusual spot to find a millennia-old statue Antiques dealer Laura ...
This list names and shames some common misconceptions and hidden truths in relation to those sacred memories we cling to after childhood. Some of them may surprise you:10Lewis Carroll may have been a pedophileLewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderla...
There are two popular ways of looking at the future: as a place where all our problems will disappear where and everyone will be happy, or as a wasteland of unremitting bleakness. Right now, my moneys on the unremitting bleakness. And with good reason: fr...
At the end of the 13th century, William Wallace led the Scots in battle against the invading English during the First War of Scottish Independence. He’s hailed as Scotland’s National Hero, but fiction has bled into the facts of his story. Many of the misc...
Just two years before his death, William M. Tompkins had written “Selected by Extraterrestrials,” which induced sudden chaos in the UFO community with his incredible testimony about the US Navy’s secret development of space battle groups with ...
Photo via WikipediaEdison has long been a staple of school history books, and most people know him as the inventor of the lightbulb. But in recent years, Edison has become an extremely controversial figure. As the Information Age entered full swing, peopl...
Longer life expectancies, ever-improving medical technology, and amusing list-based websites are just some of the treasures the early 21st century has bestowed upon us. But wed be lying if we pretended that everything was peachy. Even as some things impro...
Considering the Vietnam War was one of the most controversial conflicts in recent history, there is a lot we dont know about the war. Many of us have heard either only the basics of the war, or we have heard misconceptions about the war. There really is m...
The Black Death was a pandemic that swept through not just Europe, but also parts of Asia and Africa, leaving an absolutely devastating death toll in its wake. Tens of millions of people died at the very least, and the populations hit were so decimated th...
