Back in 2003, there was no YouTube, no social media, and no Neatorama (yet). But on September 2, we got a flash animation called Badgers that went so viral it could be used to identify who was on the internet and who wasn't. You could say "Badgers badgers badgers badgers," and if … | Continue reading
The La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles is a treasure trove of information about prehistoric California. Thousands of animals over time were trapped and then preserved in the pits, seemingly for us to study, but so far only one human has been found. Scientists are able to date these … | Continue reading
August is almost gone, which means that stores are loading their shelves with products of all kinds, flavored or scented with pumpkin spice. Now that wonderful scent comes to your butt, too! Dude Wipes, a company that caters to men pooping, has a website full of hilariously intim … | Continue reading
Brights Zoo in Limestone, Tennessee, had a blessed event about a month ago when a reticulated giraffe gave birth to a healthy female calf. The six-foot-tall baby looks very different from her mother, though. She has no spots, just a coat of smooth brown fur. The last known giraff … | Continue reading
During the 1980s and '90s, New York City parks commissioner Henry Stern insisted that all new city playgrounds incorporate animals to climb on. But over the years, that playground equipment was replaced by more modern, accessible designs, and the concrete animals were discarded o … | Continue reading
Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (previously at Neatorama) catalogued more than a thousands stars before the telescope was invented. For his service, King Frederick II of Denmark gave him an island to use for his studies. There, Brahe had an observatory built, which he called Uranib … | Continue reading
The world's longest ultramarathon will begin on August 30 in Jamaica, Queens, New York. It will also end in Jamaica, Queens, New York. It's the annual Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race, which will take place every day beginning at 6AM until midnight, for 52 days. The … | Continue reading
Hoopfinesse and Musa are identical twins. Musa has been away for 18 months, and Hoopfinesse picked him up at the airport, but their father has no idea that Musa is coming to visit. So when they went to Dad's house, Musa dressed as Hoopfinesse and walked to the door with his broth … | Continue reading
The old adage "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" doesn't make sense anymore, because who wants to keep a doctor away? It's hard enough getting an appointment to see one as it is. The saying does make for some interesting graduation pictures at medical schools. But is an apple … | Continue reading
The letter X is altogether unnecessary in phonics, and rarely does a word begin with it. But we keep it around because we like it. We end a lot of words with X, and when it's "ex," we begin words with it all the time. It's used to indicate something is wrong in schoolwork. People … | Continue reading
The US government owns a lot of land, and a lot of buildings. Some are grand federal buildings that house offices and crucial services. Others are just there on federal land, some being used for government business, others not so much. And many are miscellaneous buildings that we … | Continue reading
Embed from Getty ImagesResearch on psychopathology mostly addresses criminal psychopaths and how we might identify such people. But that research is expanding, because it's very possible, even common, for a psychopath to be law-abiding and hide their psychopathic tendencies, poss … | Continue reading
You may have learned that the universe is expanding, or maybe it's not. Not that it really matters to people like you and me, because it's already bigger than our minds can comprehend, and may as well be infinite. Toby Lockerbie, also known as Epic Spaceman, is thinking about the … | Continue reading
There's a reason we have a prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. The past was full of cruelty, and unusual was only limited by one's imagination. Here's a punishment that wasn't all that cruel, as we would view it now, but it sure was unusual. In Florence, Italy, duri … | Continue reading
Eric Carr is a master percussionist. At his YouTube channel EMC Productions, he teaches the world how to play drums and not how to play drums, as well as inventively uses drums for unconventional purposes. In the latter category, Carr recently compiled a few dozen drums … | Continue reading
The sinking of the Titanic was such a momentous disaster that movies are made about it over and over. CaptainJZH collected a dozen of those movies or TV shows and put together clips of the final plunge of the ship as it slipped underwater, out of sight. Theses movies span a hundr … | Continue reading
I decided today that I’m going to see if I can find the restaurant with the highest number of brothers. I am on strike and have nothing better to do with my time. Please join me. pic.twitter.com/BGY3r04PyX— Dan Amira (@DanAmira) July 17, 2023 Dan Amira, a humor writer … | Continue reading
...Lychon—a member of my own family!—slaughtered me, still in my youth. He threw me from the heights like a discus. I was twenty years old, so full of beauty, when the Moirai spun my fate and sent me as a delight to Hades."RIP my dude (Louvre Ma 2867, trans. Chaniotis … | Continue reading
It’s like a scene from a rom-com movie. A woman onboard a Southwest Airlines flight from Nashville to San Diego shared her cute experience concerning a man on TikTok, which subsequently went viral. The lady, named Natalie, can be seen explaining the story in the vi … | Continue reading
Let’s be real for one second: Twitter is going through some things right now. After the turnover to Elon Musk, the application has been experiencing some downfalls. From errors to Musk trying to capitalize on every single thing that made the platform popular anyway, it&rsqu … | Continue reading
Apparently, he saves up more through this method!Bill, a graduate student from the University of California, has shared his story on a viral Reddit post claiming he <a href="https://philstarlife.com/news-and-views/874879-california-grad-student-commutes-via-plane?fbclid=I … | Continue reading
Archaeologists set out to a valley near Oberhalbstein, Switzerland to uncover ancient Roman ruins. Their aim was to find some evidence left behind by the Roman military, a once powerful force in the world. However, instead of what these people wanted, they got something much olde … | Continue reading
this is literally one of the dumbest places to keep undrinkable chemicals i’ve every seen in my life… pic.twitter.com/oXxtgACKsE— Brennasaid (@brennasaid) July 4, 2023 Twitter user @Brennasaid offers this series of photos of a household cleaning product. It's P … | Continue reading
Embed from Getty ImagesHey, geography nerds! Can you name the roundest country in the world? People who have really studied world maps might be able to. People who haven't might be able to find it in the map above. Yes, it's Sierra Leone. Yes, there have been people who study and … | Continue reading
Despite having a population of only 370,000 people, Iceland is known for his huge literary output. That nation has the highest per capita number of published writers, including those that specialize in crime fiction.Hildur Knútsdóttir is one those accomplished write … | Continue reading
The National Audubon Society has crowned the winners of its annual photography competition. The Grand Prize went to the photo above by professional nature photographer Liron Gertsman of Vancouver. These are two rock pigeons engaged in allopreening, a new word I learned today that … | Continue reading
This set of mysterious stones has remained on the periphery of the modern age. It serves as a reminder that we had quite a colorful past, and also a shining beacon of light for scholars who wish to study more about our world history. Even if it has stood there for quite a long pe … | Continue reading
The first thing we learn in World History class is that humans were nomadic hunter-gatherers until 10,000 years ago, when they discovered how to grow crops and then settled into permanent communities, which gave them time to develop civilization. But an archaeological dig called … | Continue reading
A bear in ColoradoSprings, Colorado, decided to pull a reverse Goldilocks and invaded a house, possibly looking for porridge. The bear entered through a broken window on the ground floor, and made his way upstairs. He apparently wanted to go back outside, but didn't realize that … | Continue reading
From 1809 to 1927, this strange disease killed thousands of settlers and farmers in the Midwest—including Abraham Lincoln’s mother. https://t.co/GODTnGUwJg— Smithsonian Magazine (@SmithsonianMag) June 20, 2023 When pioneers began settling in the Unites States mi … | Continue reading
The ESA spacecraft carrying the James Webb Space Telescope launched on Christmas morning 2021 from the Centre Spatial Guyanais in the city of Kourou in French Guiana. You may wonder what a European spaceport is doing in South America. The French space agency CNES was established … | Continue reading
I should clarify that Everard Digby's book De Arte Natandi was English in the sense that it was published in England. Digby, a theologian at Cambridge University, wrote The Art of Swimming in Latin. A few years later, Christopher Middleton translated it into English, which you ca … | Continue reading
Fathers Day would not be complete without Darth Vader jokes. Star Wars fans of a certain age still haven't gotten over the twist in The Empire Strikes Back, the one that turned a single space adventure into an epic family saga. Too bad that was the peak of the series. (Dragging L … | Continue reading
Have you ever wanted to be in the Guinness Book of World Records? Canistus Coonghe of Sri Lanka is. He's secured fame by growing the largest (by volume and weight) kidney stone in the world.Are you jealous of Mr. Coonghe?Doctors in Colombo sugically removed the kidney stone, whic … | Continue reading
What could be more heartbreaking than a cat left alone while his human is at work? An obviously lonely and talented cat named George Rufus sang a deep and profound song about his misery, and touched the heart of South African musician David Scott, known as The Kiffness (previousl … | Continue reading
When we think of time, we think of our daily schedules or maybe a lifetime. But the human mind has a hard time grasping the history of the universe, and the relative blink of an eye that humanity has existed. The 300,000 or so years that homo sapiens has been around is the main f … | Continue reading
Anyone who has ever tried to moderate content on the internet knows how hard it is. When you allow strangers to post or comment on your website, you have to keep an eye on what they say. If it is your responsibility to encourage free and open exchange of ideas, while at the same … | Continue reading
This video is framed with the joke that tourists go to Austria and want to see kangaroos. There are no kangaroos in Austria. However, as you zoom about Vienna in this video, you might catch a glimpse of one here or there. But pretty soon you forget all about kangaroos because thi … | Continue reading
Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles was long the main highway to the western United States. Approved in 1926 (and completed in 1938), Route 66 was the path Dust Bowl victims used to escape to California. It was the subject of many a college road trip, or the path to start a new … | Continue reading
We humans once thought we were special because we had language, but animals of other species communicate with each other in many different ways. It may be that language that words and phrases andsyntax isn't unique to humans, either. Chimpanzees talk to each other all the t … | Continue reading
The Ku Klux Klan began in 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee. The first members were young fiddle players starting a social club, eager to harness the trappings of ancient secret societies to draw intrigue and respect. They were also quite frustrated over the Confederacy's loss in the re … | Continue reading
Roboticists are always looking for new ways to make a robot move. Mimicking the kinetic abilities of animals has given us Atlas, designed like a human, Spot, designed like many quadruped animals such as dogs, and hexapod robots designed like six-legged insects, But why would anyo … | Continue reading
The SS Valencia was a steamship that took off from San Francisco bound for Seattle in January of 1906 with tons of cargo and 108 passengers as well as a crew of 67 men. En route, the ship encountered bad weather and in the dark of night became lost. The crew didn't know the ship … | Continue reading
Morning rose over the sleepy town of Old Bridge. It's a quiet community. But what happens in the dark of night will be revealed to all because there had been a dumping during the twilight hours.Near a creek in the woods, some unknown criminal representing shadowy forces that quie … | Continue reading
Wow, I didn’t expect them to sink even lower. We can’t believe that we will confirm the existence of this team of mercenaries thanks to Magic The Gathering. This was totally not on our 2023 bingo card.But what are we talking about? Well, a YouTuber showed off new and … | Continue reading
An anonymous owner brought a David Hockney painting in an episode of BBC’s Antiques Roadshow. This artwork was created during the early years of the artist’s career, so there was a lack of his iconic use of vibrant colors in his contemporary artworks. Instead, viewers … | Continue reading
Oh, dear. Wheel of Fortune was bashed online after a recent episode, where a contestant attempted to guess a bonus puzzle for the chance to get the grand bonus price of $45,000. The game show player, Angela, was asked to guess the letter "M, H, D, and O" with the promp … | Continue reading
It’s not a supernatural object, definitely. Apparently, this is a weapon. A vampire straw was found in a traveler’s bag when it passed through security at Boston’s Logan Airport. The unusual item was made of titanium, and while they function as straws, … | Continue reading