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We love us some fake news (in fact, over half the things we write on this site are fake…), and somehow it’s especially rewarding being in on a joke story when someone with supposedly more authority and credibility falls for it. Cracked chronicles some cases of just such a scenario with their listicle of 7 [...]

One of our absolute all-time favorite Onion articles was this hilarious piece about an ill-conceived McDonald’s mascot named the Hammurderer, who killed the restaurant’s other mascots and stole their burgers to satisfy his cravings. Certainly no real restaurant promotion has ever failed so disastrously, but several featured in mental_floss’s listicle of 7 Food Promotions Gone [...]

We’re all for innovative packaging design, we’ll even buy a special edition of some pop cultural artifact if the few extra bucks mean we’ll have something extra cool on our shelf.
That said, sometimes packaging designers get a little nutty with their ideas and we end up with silly things like the chronically detaching tin and [...]

As every environmental scientist gets to tell us at least once during his or her career: we will likely experience some kind of global natural catastrophe in our lifetime (you know, like in The Day After Tomorrow).
In such dire times, whose advice should we seek but that of a cooky Christian fundamentalist who lives in [...]

All our friends are ditching us for Washington, D.C. this weekend to go to some fancy-pants, historical inauguration and parade or something (about which mental_floss has some funny features you should keep your eyes peeled for). Well great, fine, that’s okay, we have parades we can go to as well. In fact, the parades we [...]

Here at Listicles, we’re very much in favor of new beginnings, fresh starts, re-inventions and re-definitions (did you notice we re-vamped our logo about a month back, huh, isn’t it new, sexier and therefore better?). That said, we’re also very much not in favor of being given something packaged as “new” that is in fact [...]

In this edition of our weekly catch-up list of lists, we take an especially close look at the holiday gift list trend that is kicking into high gear. With every publication producing at least one gift guide around this time, Listicles brings you the silliest (number 5), most budget-savvy (number 3), quickest (number 4), most [...]

Today, for the first time in weeks, George W. Bush edged his way back into the headlines with the announcement of his 14 latest pardons. They mostly cover drug charges, environmental infractions and white collar crime, three things the Bush clan has never seemed very averse to.
Most notable among these are pardons of erstwhile Fugees [...]