51+ min ago   (695+ words) Almost every musician has a moment, usually in their early life, when they see or hear another musician and are so profoundly electrified that they have no choice but to pick up an instrument of their own and start to…...

22+ hour, 40+ min ago   (752+ words) Ancient Egypt might be best known for its pyramids, mummies, and hieroglyphs, but modern archaeologists are still regularly unearthing new and amazing finds from what remains of this extraordinary era. These eight items could be found in almost every ancient…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (363+ words) Mental Floss was founded in a Duke University dorm in 2001 by Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur, who were freshmen when they came up with the concept for the magazine. They published the first nationally distributed print issue in their senior…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (417+ words) According to the Library of Congress, around 75% of movies made during Hollywood’s silent era have sadly been lost to time. Although there are far fewer lost films from later decades, there are always a few movies that slip through the…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (366+ words) J. R. R. Tolkien first published The Hobbit in 1937, and followed that with The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in 1954. Ever since then, the world he spun has been entrancing fantasy lovers across generations with its epic tales of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (259+ words) A real-life example of such a large shark being found helped to convince him that this was possible. He went into more detail about the existence of shark attacks in an essay for Holiday magazine in 1967. All this would help…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (813+ words) Dolly Parton has done a lot to make sure that kids get a chance to discover a love of reading. She’s the founder of the Imagination Library, an organization that mails books to children for free from their birth until…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (844+ words) Summer is often equated with outdoor activities, but one of the best experiences of summer vacation was sitting in an air-conditioned room with popcorn and snacks, watching a great movie. For millennials, it could have been a blockbuster film at…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (268+ words) There was something so thrilling about going to a video store to grab a movie back in the day. Sure, streaming services are convenient, but the process of looking at the box art, catching glimpses of horror movies you weren’t…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (395+ words) The epic is back in the spotlight thanks to Christopher Nolan's new cinematic adaptation, coming to theaters on July 17, 2026. But while most people remember snippets of Odysseus's ten-year quest to return to Ithaca, they may benefit from a refresher on…...