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Topic: Mental Floss (page 6)

Two male pilots in the cockpit of airplane wearing sunglasses, Oklahoma, USA, 1955 (Constance Bannister Corp/Getty Images)

Sexism at 40,000 feet

Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
Franklin D. Roosevelt (Keystone Features/Getty Images)

Historical figures with coded diaries

Jane Alexander - Mental Floss

Why we call hit movies "blockbusters"

Michele Debczak - Mental Floss
Unsolved Mysteries (Netflix)

A brief history of "Unsolved Mysteries"

Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
Medieval family and their pet dog and monkey (Getty Images)

Bizarre pet advice from the Middle Ages

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
Little pocket in jeans (Getty Images)

Why do some jeans have fake pockets?

Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
Krispy Kreme glazed donuts (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Got vaxxed? These brands offer freebies

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Kristen Wiig, and Ellie Kemper in "Bridesmaids" (2011) (Universal Pictures)

20 surprising facts about "Bridesmaids"

Jon O'Brien - Mental Floss
Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman, presenter during First Annual Spike TV's Guys Choice (Chris Polk/FilmMagic)

Gen Xers are nostalgic for these PSAs

Nicole Johnson - Mental Floss
A Mississippi Civil Rights Museum mural of Freedom Riders who were arrested (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

11 facts about the Freedom Riders

Mark Mancini - Mental Floss
A fan cosplays as Black Panther, a Marvel Comics character originally created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

11 facts about Marvel artist Jack Kirby

Olivia Popp - Mental Floss
Alien invasion: They are coming and they want beef (Getty Images)

Holy cow! 11 bizarre UFO stories

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
The People vs. the Klan (CNN)

The woman who took down the KKK

Rashad Grove - Mental Floss
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