Minute Media, a publishing and technology company, is acquiring media company Mental Floss, the brands announced today. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Minute Media acquired the company from the estate of the late Felix Dennis, a British magazine publisher who purchased the-then bimonthly trivia magazine in 2011 for a reported seven figures.
Proceeds of the sale went to Heart of England Forest, a charity which Dennis established.
Mental Floss stopped printing its regular magazine in 2016, but the website is still going strong, and touches on topics ranging from science to entertainment, highlighting facts that aren’t well known with pieces such as, Why Are Some Letters Missing From NYC Subways? to 5 Clues Daenerys Targaryen Will Die in the Final Season of Game of Thrones.
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