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A teenage boy enjoying corn after swimming (Getty Images/Roy JAMES Shakespeare)

The most misspelled word in each state

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
A large statue of a stegosaurus near Barcelona was where the body of a 40-year-old man was found in 2021 (LLUIS GENE/AFP via Getty Images)

8 bizarre places where bodies were found

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
Tom Hiddleston as Loki (Disney+/Marvel Studios)

8 surprising facts about Tom Hiddleston

Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
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
Protective mask hanging on a rearview mirror (Getty Images)

20 best states for summer 2021 road trip

Tasia Bass - Mental Floss
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
Serena Williams at Wimbledon 2021 (Adam Davy/PA Images via Getty Images)

Why do Wimbledon players wear all white?

Mental Floss - Mental Floss
Sophie Turner in "Game of Thrones" (HBO)

11 actors who took home animal co-stars

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
Tom Hanks in "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" (Sony Pictures)

11 actors who played their own relatives

Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
Flowers in the Attic (Lifetime)

10 facts about "Flowers in the Attic"

Stacy Conradt - Mental Floss
"The Metamorphosis" novel or "Die Verwandlung" in German by Franz Kafka (Marka/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Unsettling facts about The Metamorphosis

Jeff Wells - Mental Floss
Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier in "Pride & Prejudice," 1940 (FilmPublicityArchive/United Archives via Getty Images)

7 people who hated "Pride and Prejudice"

Linda Rodriguez McRobbie - Mental Floss
18th century headstone in a cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts that reads "Memento mori," a Latin phrase meaning, "Remember you will die" (iStock/Getty Images)

Latin phrases you pretend to understand

Kevin Fleming - Mental Floss
Whole raw chicken walking on a table (iStock/Getty Images)

30 weird items forgotten in Ubers

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan in "When Harry Met Sally"

8 fascinating facts about Nora Ephron

Lana Schwartz - Mental Floss
Jason Sudeikis stars in "Ted Lasso" (Apple TV+)

10 fun facts about "Ted Lasso"

Sarah McGrath - Mental Floss
An early edition of Joseph Heller's novel "Catch-22" (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

15 facts you didn't know about Catch-22

M. Arbeiter - Mental Floss
Boxes containing the first shipments of the Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are unloaded from air shipping containers at UPS Worldport in Louisville, Kentucky. Each box contains dry ice to keep the temperature at minus 70 Celsius and contains a GPS tracker. (Michael Clevenger - Pool/Getty Images)

5 COVID-19 vaccine myths, debunked

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
Music streaming app Napster (Alexander Pohl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

11 facts about Napster

Kristy Puchko - Mental Floss
Kimbra performs in London (Joseph Okpako/WireImage)

The 50 most streamed one-hit wonders

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
An Amazon employee prepares a package for shipment (RONNY HARTMANN/AFP via Getty Images)

16 secrets of Amazon warehouse employees

Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
Blue and pink baby booties and pacifiers (Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Most popular baby names of 2021, so far

Michele Debczak - Mental Floss
Airdale terrier (Getty Images)

The dog who went on trial for cat murder

Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
Ernest Hemingway at his home Cuba, late 1940s. (Courtesy of Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Boston)

10 famous authors and their moms

Mental Floss - Mental Floss
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