Mental Floss

01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Mental Floss

Mental Floss mentalfloss.com

Learn weird, interesting facts about history, entertainment, language, geography, and more topics. Test your knowledge with our quizzes and other trivia.

Wikidata: American magazine

Company

No imprint we could read

Online since

Not in the Internet Archive

Audience

Top 10K In English

02 · Privacy

What Mental Floss tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

6 of the 60 sites closest to Mental Floss match.

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   Bored Panda boredpanda.com Top 10K English No trackers

   Bored Panda - The Only Magazine For Pandas

   Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.

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   National Geographic nationalgeographic.com Top 10K English No trackers

   National Geographic

   Explore National Geographic. A world leader in geography, cartography and exploration.

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   Stereogum stereogum.com English No trackers

   Stereogum: Music News, Reviews, Interviews, & More

   The world's best music blog.

   • Google Fonts
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   A List Apart alistapart.com English No trackers

   A List Apart – For people who make websites

   For people who make websites

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   Refinery29 refinery29.com English No trackers

   Refinery29 UK

   Where style meets substance - fashion, entertainment, news, and wellness daily

   • Google Search Console
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   Popular Mechanics popularmechanics.com Top 10K English No trackers

   Popular Mechanics - Product Reviews, How-To, Space, Military, Math, Science, and New Technology

   Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world, whether it's practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science.

   • Google Search Console
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Mental Floss’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Mental Floss uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Mental Floss adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.