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Loaded with meaty trivia and tasty, bite-sized facts! mental_floss is proud to offer a delicious, hearty helping of brain-food that's sure to fire up your neurons and tantalize your synapses. Condensed Knowledge is a mouthwatering mix of intriguing facts, lucid explanations, and mind-blowing theories that will satisfy even the hungriest mind! Ingredients include: 5 tiny nations that get no respect • 4 civilizations nobody remembers • 5 classics written under the influence • 4 things your boss has in common with slime mold • 3 schools of thought that will impress the opposite sex • 4 things Einstein got wrong • 5 classical tunes you know from the movies • 3 famous studies that would be illegal today • 2 religious mysteries solved by chemistry • 5 scandals that rocked art, and much more ...

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A lot like that professor of your who peppered his tests with raunchy jokes: it makes learning fun. -- Newsweek A delightfully eccentric and eclectic new magazine. -- Washington Post Part scholarly journal, part Spy magazine protege. -- Charlotte Observer For the discerning intellect, Mental Floss cleans out the cobwebs. -- Chicago Tribune The titans of trivia. -- Newsweek An ideal reference to settle arguments or jog your memory. -- Calgary Herald

For the discerning intellect, Mental Floss cleans out the cobwebs. --Chicago Tribune

For the discerning intellect, Mental Floss cleans out the cobwebs. -- Chicago Tribune

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Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur met as first year students at Duke University. Ignoring the lures of law school and investment banking, the pair co-founded mental_floss and have been grinning ever since. Maggie Koerth-Baker is a freelance journalist and a former assistant editor at mental_floss magazine, where she consistently astounded Will and Mangesh with her amazingness.

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