How to talk like a FlossTuber, from UFOs to floss drops  The Mercury News

No doubt you’ve heard of the ill fated Franklin Expedition, a British exploration of undiscovered Arctic territory in 1845. It ended tragically when its ships found themselves ice locked for more than a year, eventually leaving no survivors. But before that a small child, via her older sister, was able to provide some clues, albeit […]

The video, shot in East Kilbride, Scotland, was posted on Twitter by Aston Kerr on Wednesday evening. It shows the unnamed worker dancing on a hilltop.

Theresa May dusted off her dancing shoes to try out the new ‘flossing’ craze at the Berkshire Country Sports Club today. The Tory leader, dubbed the ‘Maybot’, has taken to dancing in public recently.

Tom Metcalfe offers an intriguing article about a remarkable type of artifact. These Roman-era puzzlers recall the 5,000 year-old Neolithic stone balls of Scotland, profiled in Greg Taylor’s outstanding Examine The Mysterious Ancient Stone Balls of Scotland in a 3D Viewer. It’s been suggested both types of artifacts might be “salesman’s samples” of stonemasons and […]

Mental Floss How to Perform the Star Wars Theme—On CalculatorsMental FlossSpielberg's initial story outline involved UFOs and shady government dealings following the Watergate scandal, which became a script entitled “Watch the Skies.” The idea involved a police or military officer working on Project Blue Book, the Air Force …

Wampahoofus of Vermont sounds like a good title for a  children’s book. In an amusing twist we are given the tale of the creation of the lopsided beast said to inhabit the mountains, walking about in a circular path and trying not to fall over. Regardless of how lighthearted the subject may seem, we are […]

Close Encounters of the Third Kind Is Returning to Theaters for Its 40th AnniversaryMental FlossNews of the re-release comes just days after Sony posted a mysterious Close Encounters-related teaser to its YouTube page in honor of World UFO Day. Other than that, not much is known about where and how you can see the re-release, […]

Was Hannah Courtoy the first female Doctor? Many a story’s been told about her tomb being a TARDIS, after a fashion, but not even Jake Rossen’s been able to find the proof. Maybe if someone finds the key to this Egyptologist’s wet dream of a structure, the world could have a peek at what lies […]

For an elephant-sized animal, purported to be a living dinosaur, Mokele-mbembe sure is hard to find. Expeditions have been going in search of this mythic beast since at least 1909; yet, they have all returned with nothing but a few track finds, a handful of reported sightings and some blurry footage between them. Maybe all […]