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Karen Gillan and Chloe Coleman in "Gunpowder Milkshake" (Reiner Bajo/Netflix)

Women are killing it in Netflix actioner

Melanie McFarland
Bloody Oranges (Rectangle Productions)

Playing a French "political beast"

Gary M. Kramer
La Civil (Menuetto Film)

A kidnapping in Mexico's "La Civil"

Gary M. Kramer
Beyonce in "Black Is King" (Travis Matthews/Disney+)

What the Emmys don't get about Beyoncé

Melanie McFarland
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Tom Hiddleston as Loki (Disney+/Marvel Studios)

8 surprising facts about Tom Hiddleston

Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
Bowen Yang and Colin Jost in "Saturday Night Live" (Will Heath/NBC)

This year's history-making Emmy noms

Kylie Cheung
Animal by Lisa Taddeo (Photo illustration by Salon/Simon & Schuster/J. Waite)

Why "bad" women's stories are untold

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Adèle Exarchopoulos in "Zero F**ks Given" (Wrong Men/ Kidam)

The willful tedium of "Zero F**ks Given"

Gary M. Kramer
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Nightly Rogue Fireworks Displays Across New York Continue To Bemuse The City (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

9 fascinating facts about fireworks

Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
Twitter app seen displayed on a smartphone with the Twitter logo in the background (Illustration by Thiago Prudêncio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Where you live impacts what you tweet

Mayank Kejriwal - The Conversation
Zaila Avant-garde competes in the first round of the the Scripps National Spelling Bee finals in Orlando, Florida on July 8, 2021. (JIM WATSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

What Zaila Avant-garde's win means

Shalini Shankar - The Conversation
Ronan Farrow in "Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes"  (HBO)

HBO's Catch & Kill takes down Weinstein

Kylie Cheung
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Protective mask hanging on a rearview mirror (Getty Images)

20 best states for summer 2021 road trip

Tasia Bass - Mental Floss
Kate Winslet in "Mare of Easttown" (HBO)

Vaping is in, smoking is out onscreen

Becky Freeman, Christina Watts - The Conversation
The White Lotus (Mario Perez/HBO)

HBO's White Lotus is a hellish paradise

Melanie McFarland
Rafael Casal as Miles in "Blindspotting" (Starz)

Living in a country addicted to prisons

D. Watkins
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Thomas Doherty and Evan Mock in "Gossip Girl" (Karolina Wojtasik/HBO Max)

Finally, casual bisexuality on TV

Kylie Cheung
Sarah Shahi as Billie Connelly and Adam Demos as Brad Simon in "Sex/Life" (Netflix)

How "Sex/Life" fails miscarriage stories

Kylie Cheung
Taylor Swift, left, and Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn. (Getty Images)

GOP Sen. vs. Taylor Swift feud heats up

Meaghan Ellis - Alternet
Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff in "Black Widow" (Disney+/Marvel Studios)

Black Widow's excellence is infuriating

Melanie McFarland
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Mel Brooks attends the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival opening night after party in April 2018 in Hollywood (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for TCM)

12 surprising facts about Mel Brooks

Mark Mancini - Mental Floss
Richard Marx (Simon & Schuster)

Richard Marx: "I grew up in the studio"

Nicole Michael
Serena Williams at Wimbledon 2021 (Adam Davy/PA Images via Getty Images)

Why do Wimbledon players wear all white?

Mental Floss - Mental Floss
The Go-Go's, circa 1980 (Kerstin Rodgers/Redferns/Getty Images)

The Go-Go's groundbreaking debut at 40

Annie Zaleski
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