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What Exactly Is a Crimson Tide?
Last month, Scott Allen wrote about the origins of the nicknames of the 10 schools in BCS bowls. In honor of tonight’s championship game between Alabama and Texas, here’s the scoop on where they got...
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Last Month’s Most Popular Stories on mentalfloss.com
In case you weren’t obsessively refreshing mentalfloss.com in November, here’s what you missed… 1. 4 Bizarre Experiments That Should Never Be Repeated, by Megan Wilde * 2. Talking Pictures: Glamor...
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The Quick 10: 10 Things We Got from Texas
Happy Texas Independence Day! Today, 175 years ago, Texas official declared itself independent of Mexico. In the meantime, Texans have been busily filling the world with weird and useful things. Here...
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What the Miami Heat and Dallas Mavericks Were Almost Called
The NBA Finals are set, with Dallas heading to Miami for Game 1 on Tuesday. We can’t tell you who’s going to win, but thanks to an article Scott Allen wrote for us a couple seasons ago, we can tell...
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How to Beat the Lottery with Statistical Certainty
Someone very smart once told me that the lottery is like a tax for the mathematically stupid, but apparently you can make playing lottery a profitable venture … if you’re good at math (kids, this is...
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The Halloween Costume You’re Most Proud Of
On Fridays, I post a series of unrelated questions meant to spark conversation in the comments. Answer one, answer all, respond to someone else’s reply, whatever you want. On to this week’s topics of...
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The mental_floss Guide to the NCAA Tournament: The South
We’re going region by region, giving you one fun fact about each team in the tournament. (1) Kentucky Kentucky got its royal blue team color from a piece of clothing. In 1891 the school needed a set of...
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The mental_floss Guide to the NCAA Tournament: The East
We’re going region by region, giving you one fun fact about each team in the tournament. (1) Syracuse Syracuse’s colors were originally pink and blue, but the class of 1890 changed it to orange. A...
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The mental_floss Guide to the NCAA Tournament: The Midwest
We’re going region by region, giving you one fun fact about each team in the tournament. Last up, the Midwest! (1) North Carolina © Duomo/CORBIS Yearning to learn more about your kidneys? Head to the...
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Our Top 16 Stories of August 2012
In case you weren’t obsessively refreshing mentalfloss.com all month, here’s what you missed: 1. 24 Vintage Photographs of Abraham Lincoln Being Awesome, by Lucas Reilly * 2. 11 Geeky Wedding and...
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