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''Mental Floss'' (stylized ''mental_floss'') is an American magazine that presents facts and trivia in a humorous way. It is published nine times a year. MentalFloss.com hosts a popular blog, which presents additional trivia, features and interesting news articles. The magazine has a circulation of 160,000, while the website attracts nearly 10 million users a month.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gone Native: The Magazine Whose Editors Write Ad Content – Digiday )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=We're Hiring Writers, Editors, and a Producer )〕 Launched in Birmingham, Alabama in 2001,〔(Press Release ) describing magazine launch〕 the company has additional offices in Midtown Manhattan. The magazine has more than 100,000 subscribers in over 17 countries.〔(Cleveland.com ) "Ohio couple share in the fun as Mental Floss magazine executives"〕 The publication also has been included in ''Inc.'' magazine's list of the 5,000 fastest growing private companies.〔(The News Herald ) "Folks behind mental_floss open retail store in Chester Township"〕 The magazine frequently publishes books and sells humorous T-shirts. It also developed a licensed trivia board game called ''Split Decision'', similar to ''Trivial Pursuit''. Its online store sells quirky home and office supplies, games and toys. Dennis Publishing bought the magazine in 2011. ==Origin== The magazine was co-founded by William E. Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur while they were students at Duke University. According to the Mental Floss website, the idea came from conversations in the Duke cafeteria about the need for an entertaining educational magazine.〔(mental_floss About page )〕 According to Hattikudur, they wanted to "distill some of the best lectures from our favorite college professors. We thought if we could bottle their enthusiasm and deliver it in monthly installments, it'd be great."〔 Later, Pearson met with president of Duke University, who loved the idea, but disliked the name. The first published issue, known as the "Campus Edition", was published in spring 2000, distributing 3,000 issues. The founders spent much of their first year looking for investors and staff members while raising funds to publish the first issue, which was released in May 2001. Over the following summer, 8,000 copies were distributed, and 60% sold out on newsstands.〔See ''Mental Floss'' Volume 5, issue 6, page 8.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mental Floss」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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