mental_floss is an intelligent read, but not too intelligent. We're the sort of intelligent that you hang out with for a while, enjoy our company, laugh a little, and smile a lot. And only later do you realize how much you learned from us. Like a couple days later when you're impressing your friends with all these intriguing stories, and they ask you how you know so much, and you think back on that great afternoon you spent with us.

And then you lie and say you read a lot.