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Courtesy of Weekly World News Though it feels a little bit like choosing a favorite child, of the thousands of stories Mental Floss publishes in any year, our staffers are bound to have some particular favorites. It could be a case of a long-gestating idea finally coming to fruition, or a story that is so unique (or just plain bizarre) that there’s no way we could pass up the chance to write about it. As we've done in years past, we asked the Mental Floss team to share some of their favorite stories from 2020—just in case you missed any of them.

From giant parrots and feathered dinosaurs to really old poop and The Bone Wars to the difference between body fossils and trace fossils, here are some fun facts about fossils, adapted from an episode of The List Show on YouTube. 1. A fossil showed that parrots used to be 3 feet tall. In 2019, a paper published in the journal Biology Letters described the fossil of a parrot that lived somewhere around 16 to 19 million years ago. The bones were originally found in 2008, but they were misidentified as an eagle because no one assumed there would be a parrot that big. The bird, believed to be ab...

Thisisengineering, Pexels This year proved, once again, that discoveries in science, history, and virtually every other sphere simply never stop—not even during a pandemic. On the latest episode of The List Show, Mental Floss editor-in-chief Erin McCarthy counts down (or up, rather) an epic list of 100 fascinating things we learned in 2020. Don’t worry, it’s not all about zoonotic diseases and the efficacy of face masks. We recently found out, for example, that Bob Odenkirk almost nabbed the role of The Office’s Michael Scott; and Paul Rudd was in the running for Jim Halpert. And as ...

Did you know there's a club for people who have been ejected out of a plane, and an organization for people who are just ... happy? Read on to find out about those clubs and more in this list adapted from The List Show on YouTube. 1. Martin-Baker Ejection Tie Club Pilots who activated their Martin-Baker ejection seats and lived to tell the tale are officially inducted into the Martin-Baker Ejection Tie Club. After surviving their harrowing ordeal, pilots receive a tie, tie pin, patch, certificate, and membership card to commemorate the event. Each item is emblazoned with the red triangle icon...