“We did so many great stories over the years, but I would always get excited when we would do our Big Questions issues. The Twilight Zone (November 2014) Big Questions The way you could talk about a masterpiece and get someone to actually want to buy that album or listen to that song, or see that art piece after, was just something I felt like, in some ways, was the most overlooked and most successful thing in the publication. And he spent so much time in the dentist chair staring at his dentist's face that the dentist became the model for the farmer in this picture.
take a story like American Gothic and make people look at it completely differently: That Grant Wood was addicted to sugar and put spoonfuls of sugar on his lettuce, even, to eat. The masterpieces were things we felt had to be essential knowledge, but also felt so dry for the most part. Here are a few of favorites from Mental Floss staffers past and present, and don’t forget to tell us your favorite Mental Floss story on social media using the tag #MentalFloss20. Mental Floss has covered a lot of ground in its 20 years, and produced so many incredible stories that it would be impossible to mention them all-but we still decided to try.
