19 5 / 2013
Is the Government Reading Your Email?
In an excerpt from their new book, D.B. Grady and Marc Ambinder offer 13 ways to tell whether the government is sniffing around your inbox.
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19 5 / 2013
Last Week’s Most Popular Stories
In case you weren’t obsessively refreshing mentalfloss.com all week, here’s what you missed…
1. 10 Hotel Secrets From Behind the Front Desk
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2. 10 Facial Reconstructions of Famous Historical Figures
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3. 11 Baby Naming Trends From the Past
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4. 11 Discontinued Beverages from Your Youth
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5. 11 Things That Make You a Bad Driver
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6. 11 Songs That Brought People Out of Comas
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7. 8 Movies That Changed Movies
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8. 11 Terrifying Images of Old Soviet Playgrounds
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9. 11 Nerdy Recipes from Books, Movies and TV
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10. 5 Crazy Examples of Fear in Advertising
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16 5 / 2013
11 Strange Movie Job Titles—Explained!
Here’s what the key grip, best boy, and gaffer actually do, plus the origins of all those titles.
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