Texas is bracing for the largest hurricane to strike the U.S. in more than ten years. Residents along the Texas coast are stocking up on supplies or else heading inland before hurricane Harvey hits. The hurricane is expe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/24/Hurricane-Harvey/You never hear about a voodoo doll being made for a good reason, and I don't think I've ever heard of someone making a voodoo doll in their own likeness, but maybe we've been looking at them all wrong.Perhaps, as this co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/24/A-Voodoo-Doll-Of-Yourself/You might be surprised to learn that Benjamin Franklin even had a wife. Deborah Read and Ben weren't legally married because she couldn't prove her long-gone first husband was dead, but they entered into a common-law mar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/24/What-Led-Benjamin-Franklin-to-Live-Estranged-From-His-Wife-for-Nearly-Two-Decades/The recent episode of Rick & Morty entitled "Pickle Rick" changed some fans' wubbalubbin' lives, as Rick turned himself into a pickle then used his astounding intellect to survive a day as a limbless pickle.Fans were...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/24/Pickle-Rick-The-Action-Figure/St. Guinefort does not appear in the official canon of the Catholic Church. Or at least, not the Guinefort we're talking about here (St. Cucuphas is sometimes referred to as Guinefort). That's because Guinefort was a 13t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/24/The-Cult-of-Guinefort/We're taught at an early age that it's wrong to cut in line because we have to wait your turn just like everyone else, and then we flout this rule by cutting whenever we see someone we know in line.But what if there was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/24/The-Scientifically-Proven-Way-To-Cut-In-Line/Black holes are more powerful than we ever imagined. Kurzgesagt drives that point home with frightening words in a calm voice. Then they go on to explain the information paradox.[https://youtu.be/yWO-cvGETRQ] (YouTube li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/24/Why-Black-Holes-Could-Delete-The-Universe/People love to hear stories about police officers, paramedics or firefighters saving the lives of animals trapped in deadly situations because they show us how much emergency responders actually care about life.But this...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/24/Firefighters-Rescue-Piglets-From-Fire-Then-Later-Gobble-Them-Up/Richard Halliburton lived the kind of life many only dream of. He was from a wealthy family, and as soon as he graduated from Princeton in 1921, he hit the road to travel the world. No adventure was too far, too dangerou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/24/The-Last-Adventure-of-Richard-Halliburton-the-Forgotten-Hero-of-1930s-America/Monster of Texas by Buby87Football players are scary in their own right, and they train to become bigger, buffer and even scarier so they're more effective on the field, but imagine how terrified the other team would...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/24/Monster-Of-Texas-Hes-More-Of-An-Ambusher-Than-A-Raider/Most dogs are inherently boorish and uncivilized so they don't know how to ask politely when they want to come back in the house and end up annoying their humans by scratching on the door and whining.That's why dogs who...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/24/Dog-Politely-Rings-Doorbell-When-She-Wants-To-Come-Inside/There's a long list of prohibited objects and actions at Walt Disney World. Some of them seem so strange that you know there's a precedent behind each restriction, a story of someone ruining the fun for everyone. Before...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/24/Seemingly-Harmless-Things-That-Can-Get-You-Banned-from-Disney-World/Aliens Gave my Cat a Beard by Steven RhodesCats are the coolest animals on the planet in terms of personality and attitude, and because they're so cool we humans look up to them, secretly wishing we could muster as much...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/24/Youll-Be-The-Coolest-Cat-In-Town-When-You-Wear-One-Of-These-NeatoShop-T-Shirts/The life of an IT professional is never easy, having to deal with all those other employees who don't understand computers. What makes you think it would be any easier in the future? People will always be just people. Cl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/24/Tech-Support-on-the-Enterprise/I know a lot of people have probably already tossed their eclipse glasses and many people who haven't already decided to keep theirs as a lifelong souvenir, but if you're still deciding what to do with yours, now there's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/24/Still-Have-Those-Eclipse-Glasses-Consider-Putting-Them-to-Good-Use/How one man formalized his gibberish and fooled Europe’s scholars. Nobody knew what to make of George Psalmanazar. From the day he arrived in London in 1703, his pale features, shabby dress, and raw meat d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/24/George-Psalmanazar-The-Lying-Linguist/If you stare at this circle for ten seconds, your brain will begin to perceive it as a red dot. Go ahead, try it! Crinchy posted this at reddit, and SEILogistics gave a simple explanation. It's caused by a prefrontal imb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/24/Amazing-Optical-Illusion/
