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This article contains affiliate links to products selected by our editors. Mental Floss may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.We spend a lot of time sleeping—anywhere from one-third of our lives to about 33 years, give or take—so it makes sense that when it comes to buying a new mattress, you’d want to choose carefully....

Even if you take pride in keeping your living space being spotless, it’s difficult to maintain that standard when you’re preparing to move. In the image below, boxes, furniture, pets, and other belongings clutter the room so thoroughly that you can’t even see the parquet floor—except for one small piece.According to Luxury Flooring & Furnishings, the company that...

In its most general sense, thrift shopping or thrifting can refer to buying items—particularly apparel—secondhand. Someone might colloquially mention going thrifting at a flea market, a yard sale, or some other secondhand establishment.But a thrift shop (or thrift store) isn’t just any secondhand establishment: As Current Boutique’s Craving Current blog explains, it’s typically a non-profit that diverts its...

Every so often the literary world is rocked by the discovery of a work that was thought to be lost forever. Take, for instance, Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things”: The work, published in 1811, was attributed to the author in 1872 (50 years after he had died) and rediscovered in 2006. But...

This article contains affiliate links to products selected by our editors. Mental Floss may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.When it comes to getting a good night’s rest, most folks know that having a solid mattress is a must. But regardless of which type of bed you catch your 40 winks on, keeping it in...

This article contains affiliate links to products selected by our editors. Mental Floss may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.Amazon Prime Day is here, which for many shoppers is kind of like Christmas in July. Whether you want to get an early start crossing off names on this year's holiday list or are just looking...

Hollywood has been enamored with aliens for as long as movies have been a thing, but perhaps no alien-themed movie has had quite the impact of Contact, released 25 years ago this month. Based on the novel by Carl Sagan, the movie marked a sharp departure from the space-travel-and-alien movies of its time. For starters, the aliens come...

When ordering a meal at a restaurant, taste should be the main concern. Whether you can pronounce the name of the dish shouldn't factor into your decision, but that's not always the case. If you've ever ordered a salad to avoid saying vichyssoise to your server, it's time to brush up on your culinary vocabulary. Here are 20...

Virginia Woolf was convinced that women couldn’t have been writers in Shakespeare’s time. Even intelligent women “ have taken part in any one of the great movements which … constitute the historian's view of the past,” she lamented in her 1928 lecture, A Room of One's Own. If Shakespeare had had an equally talented sister, Woolf said, she...