Feature: mental_floss Question of the Day
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Q: Have Product Placement Deals Ever Found Their Way Into Novels?— Mental_Floss question of the day.
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Q: How Come No One Knows Where Genghis Khan is Buried?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What’s the Difference Between Murder and Manslaughter?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What’s the Greatest Coffee Inspired Composition?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What’s So Grand About A Grand Jury?
— Mental_Floss question of the day.
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Q: What’s the Most Expensive Book at Amazon.com?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Can You Make Money Playing SCRABBLE?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Who’s The Greatest Female Pirate Of All Time?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What’s the Greatest PR-Related Stunt Involving e-Bay?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Who’s The Genius Behind The Life Saver?
— Mental_Floss question of the day.
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Q: How Did A Chimp And A Fishing Rod Change All Of Science?— “Now we must redefine tool, redefine man, or accept chimpanzees as humans.”
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Q: What’s So Heartwarming About the First Gettysburg Reenactment?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: How Much Damage Can a Stinging Tree Do?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Why No Turkey Eggs at the Store?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What’s the Creepiest Thing Writer’s Block Has Caused Someone to Do?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: How Did Curling Become a Sport?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Do Scientists Believe the Moon’s Phases Affect Human Blood Flow?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Who is the Most Corrupt CEO in American History?— mental_floss Question of the Day
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Q: How Bad Was Johann Sebastian Bach’s Temper?— The Mental Floss Question of the Day.
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Q: What Happened to D. H. Lawrence’s Ashes?— mental_floss Question of the Day
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Q: Why Hasn’t Blackbeard’s Buried Treasure Been Found?— mental_floss Question of the Day
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Q: Is It Possible to Have a Two-Way Conversation With a Severed Head?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What Happened to Original Beatles Drummer Pete Best?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Who Invented the Office Cubicle?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: How Sneaky Are Carnivorous Plants?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: How Did a Warm Thanksgiving Lead to the TV dinner?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Why Were People Initially Afraid of the Rubik’s Cube?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What’s the Most Corrupt Nation on Earth?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Why Did Goldfish-Swallowing Become Such a Fad?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Who Had the Largest Harem of All Time?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Why Did Charlie Chaplin Refuse to Step Foot in America?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Why Were Cars Never Powered by Steam?
— Nicolas Joseph Cugnot certainly doesn’t get the credit he deserves.
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Q: How Did Phone Booth Stuffing Get Popular?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Was There a Real Robinson Crusoe?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What Is Atari's Biggest Mistake?
— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Who Was The Most Infamous Art Forger Of All Time?
— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Was Fairy Tale Author Hans Christian Anderson an Ugly Duckling?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Has Brilliant Idea-Man Steve Jobs Ever Produced A Few Rotten “Apples?”— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Why Was Preston Tucker So Ahead of His Time?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Was Miniature Golf Once Swanky?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Can Scientists Help You Choose the Sex of Your Baby?
— U.K.-based clinics are now offering potential parents the opportunity to “choose” the sex of their impending bundles of joy.
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Q: Have Any Celebrity Ghosts Ever Been Spotted in America?
— Mental_Floss question of the day.
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Q: What Exactly Is Baby Corn?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Are There Any Real-Life Cyborgs?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What’s the Cruelest Use of Country Music?
— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Yodeling For Health?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What’s Isaac Newton’s Greatest Household Invention?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Who Was the First Mystery Novelist?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What’s the Greatest Performance of an Ailing Athlete?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Why Are They Called "Bulldogs"?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Was Body Builder Charles Atlas A Real Person?
— Mental_Floss question of the day.
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Q: How Long Has Asbestos Been Around?
— Mental_Floss question of the day.
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Q: Did Mary Shelley Keep Her Dead Husband’s Heart in Her Desk?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: The Greatest Message In a Bottle?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Why Has Alan Smithee Directed So Many Bad Movies?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: How Many Languages in South Africa’s National Anthem?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Why Do Diamonds Need Advertising?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Have There Been Societies That Have Practiced Polyandry?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Just How Terrible Was Ivan the Terrible?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Does Anyone Speak Esperanto Anymore?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Have Bad Politics Ever Made Someone Throw Up?
— Mental_Floss question of the day.
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Q: What Makes Zoroastrian Funerals So Unusual?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Why No Nobel Prize for Mathematics?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Does Greasy Food Curb Depression?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Do Toilets in Australia Flush Counter-Clockwise?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Why is the Marathon Race Longer Now?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Can Babies Really Hear Sounds From The Mother’s Womb?
— Mental_Floss question of the day.
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Q: Will Smoking Bananas Get You High?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Did a Computer Really Beat Napoléon at Chess?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: How Down to Earth is J-Lo?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What’s the Oddest Instance of Overstuffed Colonialism?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Did Gandhi Ever Win the Nobel Peace Prize?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What Is the Connection Between a Serial Polygamist and Famous Flatware?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Has a Judge Ever “Fixed” a Murder Trial?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Who Was Alexander the Great's Father?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Why Did the Slinky’s Corporation’s CEO Flee to Bolivia?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What Ever Happened To Syd Barrett, One Of The Founding Members Of Pink Floyd?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Was Italy Defeated in Battle By An African Nation?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Who Was "Dr. Seuss"?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: How Did Columbus Die?
— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Mendeleev Never Won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What Is (Was) a Sea Cow?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: How Did Cortés and 600 Spaniards Subdue 5 Million Aztecs?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Why Did President Nixon Try To Fancy Up The Outfits Worn By White House Guards?
— Mental_Floss question of the day.
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Q: What’s A Dodo Bird And Where’d They All Go?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Did a Man Once Eat an Airplane?
— A: Yes, but let’s not sell him short; he hasn’t just limited himself to airplanes.
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Q: Who Was the FBI's Most Damaging Spy?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Was Edmund Hillary the First Man to Climb Mount Everest?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Did Women Fight in the Civil War?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Did Van Gogh Really Chop Off His Ear and Mail It to a Prostitute?— If the truth be told.
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Q: Are Barry Bonds and Willie Mays Related?— A: Not quite, but close. The legendary Willie Mays is actually Barry Bonds’ godfather. So, for Barry to have Bobby Bonds (a 14-year MLB slugger in his own right) as...
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Q: Will Throwing Rice at a Wedding Cause Birds to Explode?— A: These days it’s become common practice for eco-friendly couples not to feature rice throwing at their weddings. After all, as the popular theory goes, birds would eat the rice,...
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Q: Did Betsy Ross Design The American Flag?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Are Elephants Really Afraid of Mice?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Was Macbeth As Bad As Shakespeare Portrayed Him?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What Did Chris Farley And Jimmy Carter’s Brother Have In Common?
— Mental Floss question of the day.
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Q: Did Jesus Have Brothers?
— Mental Floss question of the day.
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Q: Did Germany’s Most Well-Known Theologian Conspire To Assassinate Hitler?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What’s the Saddest True Love Story of All Time?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What’s the Strangest Dowry in the Bible?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: How Elaborate Were the Burials of Chinese Emperors?— A: In Chinese culture, death and dying are perceived as just another phase of life. So, it’s no wonder that the emperor and other royalty have burial chambers that...
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Q: What Happened to Port Royal, the Original Sin City?
— Mental Floss question of the day.
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Q: Where Did America’s First Toga Party Take Place?
— Mental Floss question of the day.
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Q: Who Was Mata Hari and Why Was She Executed?— Shedding some light on the mystery woman of the World War I era.
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Q: Why Isn’t Juggling A Competitive Sport?
— Mental Floss question of the day.
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Q: Was Ben Franklin a Ladies’ Man?— A: Ben Franklin, the Renaissance man of the American Revolution, was a self-taught meteorologist, printer, inventor, diplomat, and the list goes on and on. But a ladies’ man? That can’t...
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Q: What Is Money Laundering?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Who was "Hairy Pants" the Viking?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: The World’s First Billionaire?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Who Said “There’s a sucker born every minute”?— The mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What Track and Field “She” Was a "He”?— The mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: How Many Times Has Poor Poland Been Partitioned By Predators?— Mental_Floss question of the day.
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Q: What Was the Worst Baseball Trade of All-Time?
— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Can a Slot Machine Ever Be Due for a Pay-off?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What Was the Biggest Bank Robbery in U.S. History?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Who Was the Worst Pope?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Was Michael Moore Really a Divinity School Student?— A: It’s true. Believe it or not, controversial documentary filmmaker Michael Moore began studying at a seminary in his hometown of Flint, Michigan, as just an eighth grader in 1967....
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Q: What Feature film Was Made In the Shortest Time?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Who Was the Most Corrupt American Politician?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Was Sir Isaac Newton Crazy?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: When Was the Waterbed Invented?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Biggest Art Theft in U.S. History?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What Does a Multibillion-Dollar Shopping Spree Look Like?— A: You decide to go to the mall to just browse around; then, next thing you know you’re buying a pair of shoes; then – oops – you just paid...
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Q: Was There a Real Pirate Blackbeard?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What Real Life Cocaine Kingpin is the Inspiration For Every Drug Villain in the Movies?— The mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Did Chastity Belts Really Exist?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What Was the Greatest College Prank of All-time?
— The mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Did a Woman Cheat to Win the Boston Marathon?
— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Who Founded Stanford University?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Why Was Shoeless Joe Banned From Baseball?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What’s the World’s Oldest Official National Anthem?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What If You Miss the Deadline to Claim Your Lottery Prize?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: How Crazy Was Caligula?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What’s the Greatest Political Symbol of All-Time?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: How Did a Fever Spur Darwin to Publish?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Is “The Star-Spangled Banner” Really a Drinking Song?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Are There People Buried in the Hoover Dam?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Why Did Alexander Hamilton Lose His Duel With Aaron Burr?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What Was Stalin’s Most Useless Project?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Who Was General Custer and Where Did He Stand Last?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What’s the Scariest Secret Society at Yale?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Was Napoleon Really a Shrimp?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Do Academic Journals Ever Get Tricked?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Can You Taste the Color Red?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Will Listening to Mozart Make Your Child Smart?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: "Blinded By the Light, Revved Up Like a…" What?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: How Did Jimi Hendrix Actually Kiss the Sky?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Where Does the Vulcan Salute Come From?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What's a MacGuffin?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Who’s Older – Batman or Superman?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Can You Gain Weight By Running Super Fast?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Rap vs. Hip-Hop – What’s the Difference?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Did Mama Cass Choke to Death on a Ham Sandwich?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Can We Drink Radioactive Alcohol?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What Did Archimedes Discover in a Bathtub?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Did Einstein’s E = mc² Equation Really Make the Atomic Bomb Possible?
— Mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: How Many Licks Does It Take to Get to the Center of a Tootsie Pop?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Why Are Grape-Nuts Neither Grapes Nor Nuts?— mental_floss question of he day.
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Q: How Much Stronger Than Humans Are Chimpanzees?— mental-Floss question of the day.
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Q: What Exactly Are Sea-Monkeys?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Why Won’t Pineapple and Jell-O Be Friends?— Taboo ingredients for Jell-O? The mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Can An Injured Body Part Sense Weather?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Human Meat Isn’t Appetizing, But Is It Healthy?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Why Can’t You Tickle Yourself?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Is It Possible to Own Property on the Moon?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Why Is It Called “Blackmail?”— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Who Invented Sliced Bread Anyway?— We know nothing better has come along since then. The mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: How Much Wood Would A Woodchuck Chuck If A Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Was Turkey a Bird or a Country First?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Why Do We Call Them Grandfather Clocks?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Why Do Most Snooze Buttons Only Give You Nine More Minutes of Sleep?— mental_floss Question of the Day
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Q: So, Why Does Hawaii Have Interstate Highways?— Take a ride down the information highway, er...Interstate system with Mental Floss.
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Q: Why Do Battery Letters Skip from A to C? And Was There Ever a B-Cell Battery?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Can a Pregnant Woman Drive in the Carpool Lane?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: How Does a Word Become a Curse Word?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Which Came First, the Can Opener or the Can?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Is There One Move That’s More Likely to Win a Game of Rock-Paper-Scissors?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: What Does McDonald’s Have in Common with the CIA?— Mental Floss clowns around.
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Q: Where Does Nougat Come From?— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Did Sigmund Freud Dabble in Drugs?
— mental_floss question of the day.
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Q: Who’s That AOL Guy Who Eerily Knows When You’ve Got Mail?— Elwood Edwards, the man behind the AOL messages. The curtain's finally pulled back.
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