Google is one of those rare breed of company that has managed to keep its sense of humor despite growing to monstrous, 1984 proportions. As a pun on the Easter holiday, Mental Floss points out these sixteen Google easter eggs. While you may already know the “do a barrel roll” easter egg––search that and Google will actually spin around, for those of you who didn’t know that––you probably didn’t know that you can search back in time!

Mental Floss offers more proof that Law and Order is the greatest film franchise of all time. Take a look at some of the twenty-eight stars who started out on L&O: Fifteen years before he was clearing space on his bookshelf for a Best Actor Oscar, Philip Seymour Hoffman made his on-screen debut in Law & Order’s first season playing a …

In the immortal words of Salt ‘N Pepa, “Let’s talk about sex…” In this episode of Mental Floss’ weekly trivia show, host John Green plays peeping Tom on animals doing the deed, and we find out that the real problem with panda survival is a sad lack of hollow trees. Huh? Check it out (unless …

Mental Floss hosted by John Green, where knowledge junkies get their fix of trivia-tastic information. This week, John sorts through a number of acronyms and initialisms such as M&M’s, SCUBA, and the USA PATRIOT act. An acronym is an abbreviation formed from the initial components in a phrase or a word. These components may be individual letters (as in CEO) …

Of all winter’s leisuretime activities, sledding easily seems the most straightforward, requiring only a something to sit on, snow and a slope, but as Erin McCarthy of Mental Floss discovered when she did some digging in the mounds of sledding history, there’s more to it than meets the eye. Toboggans 1. The word toboggan comes …