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Mental Floss There’S This Wonderful Calvin and Hobbes Comic Where Office, but Not Intentionally How does . Ï THE FAREWELL ISSUE! work? p.40 ' ÏÎ FEEL SMART AGAIN ® Did the CAN LIGHTNING POWER THE WORLD? CIA Save P.35 $ ]Ï WHAT’S THE Why does MOST AIRPLANES ANYONE HAS = p.33 )Ì EVER EATEN? P.14 * Ï ? p.43 WHAT’S THE PURPOSE OF A LAVA LAMP? P.35 CAN I CATCH A NEUTRINO? P.42 Is Sleep )Ï ÌÎÏÌÍ Ï? p.38 Who’s the 016 $ ' ÏÐ ballerina in IS A BEAVER A FISH? (SPOILER: MAYBE!) P.13 history? p.26 VOLUME 15, ISSUE 6 6 ISSUE 15, VOLUME MENTALFLOSS.COM NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER When it comes to brewing beer, water matters. For us, it’s Rocky Mountain water, or nothing. Starting high in the mountains, it picks up minerals as it trickles down FUHDWLQJDQXQPDWFKHGÁDYRU © 2016 COORS BREWING CO., GOLDEN, CO FOUNDERS’ NOTE DEAR READER, (A note about your final issue) 1 We used to have Muzak playing in our first mental_floss There’s this wonderful Calvin and Hobbes comic where office, but not intentionally. The former tenant, a dentist, Calvin is bemoaning that rock ’n’ roll is no longer a useful never turned it off. If everyone stopped talking you’d hear it way to protest. Rock artists sold out, he says. They’re no softly in the background. (It longer passionate or sticking it to The Man. So Calvin inspired some terrible dance parties.) suggests his generation will have to rely on something 2 Without a budget, we also had different. Fortunately, he’s discovered something truly to draw our own magazine art. A young and talented Winslow rebellious: Muzak. And as it flows out of his little speaker, Taft stepped in and fixed that. He is one of the best things he tells Hobbes the kicker: “I play it real quiet, too.” that could have happened to this magazine. (One of Mangesh’s early covers that If playing Muzak (softly)1 is the ulti- it’s not the last you’ll hear from Winslow improved.) mate rebellion, two nerds setting out us. We’ve loved creating a print 3 Toby and Melanie Maloney to start an educational magazine feels product, but fighting for space on were our biggest angels. like a close second. But we’ve been the newsstand and Pony Express- But we had others: Along with Tom Gallagher, Jerry Footlick lucky to do this for 15 years. When we ing issues to doorsteps are no longer and his wife, Ceil Cleveland, started, we waited tables and baby- the best ways to get you the stories were early supporters. Samir sat and taught as substitutes. When you want. 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