Bad news, night owls! Turns out that we're going to die sooner than those annoying morning people. A new study by researchers at the University of Surrey and Northwestern University found that people who liked to...

Thinking of eating a burger toda...  ...te was linked with a 14% reduction in mortality risk; low-fat dairy or legumes, 10%; and fish, 7%...

If you grew up playing the game Oregon Trail, you know how easy it is to die along the way, from dysentery, cholera, diphtheria, typhoid, or the measles. Hey, at least you learned about the diseases, right? Mental_floss...

We know Florence Nightingale as the founder of nursing as a profession, but she was also an accomplished statistician and graph maker. More importantly, she used statistical graphs to push for social change, particularly...