Valerie Musser knows bearded dragons- she has five of them! She sometimes dresses them up and poses them in miniature kitchen scenes for fun, as you can see at Instagram.Winny came as a rescue when she was abandoned in f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/13/Disabled-Bearded-Dragon-Overcomes-the-Odds-Stacked-Against-Her/Some people find the 6-7 meme frustrating. My teenage children found it amusing until I started working it into every conversation that we had. Then they stopped using it. Victory!The only way to defeat being ambushed by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/13/In-N-Out-Burger-Removes-Number-67-from-System-in-Response-to-6-7-Meme/Black Death refers to a pandemic of bubonic plague that swept Europe in the mid 14th century, killing up to half the population. The disease, carried by fleas on rats, had been around for thousands of years, and the viru...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/13/A-Volcanic-Eruption-May-Have-Led-to-the-Black-Death/Actor, comedian, singer, and dancer Dick Van Dyke was born on December 13, 1925, which means he is turning 100 years old today. Van Dyke began his career in the military, then went on to radio and nightclubs, and became...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/13/Happy-100th-Birthday-Dick-Van-Dyke/Truck drivers spent a lot of time on US highways, and they have the opportunity to leave reviews of those roads with organizations that crunch the numbers. The Overdrive Highway Report Card keeps track of the worst roads...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/12/The-Best-and-Worst-Highways-in-the-United-States-According-to-Truck-Drivers/Vinnie's is a pizzeria in the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn is famous for innovative pizza designs, such as pizzas topped with smaller pizzas and a pizza box that is itself made of pizzas. Its menu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/12/Tomato-Soup-and-Grilled-Cheese-Sandwiches-Pizza/Deke Cameron is The Glass Clown, a stained glass artist in the Austin, Texas area. You can commission him to create windows and pieces so suit your own needs or consider purchasing one of his passion projects inspired by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/12/Stained-Glass-by-the-Glass-Clown/You'd better pick up that mace, Hamburgler. You're need it!Our anti-hero of the Ronald McDonaldland cinematic universe has been, at long last, called to account before the throne of Ronaldus McDonaldus.But Ronaldus's hun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/12/Battle-at-the-McColosseum/Before you go to bed on Christmas Eve, don't forget to leave out milk and cookies as a treat for Santa Claus when he stops by! And maybe some carrots for his reindeer. You might get the idea that the jolly old elf will b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/12/What-Kids-Leave-Out-for-Santa-Claus-Around-the-World/We are often warned not to take health advice from just anyone on the internet, because there a lot of folks out there trying to make money from telling you how you are doing something wrong. That goes for sleep position...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/12/How-Your-Sleep-Position-Can-Affect-Your-Health/I ran into this "fun fact," and found it so absurd I just had to look it up. Far from debunking a funny meme, I found that the story of the 1901 book Makt myrkranna, or Powers of Darkness, was even stra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/11/iMakt-Myrkrannai-the-Icelandic-iDraculai/Eight of the best mechanical minds in Japan collaborated to assemble the Great Ball Contraption at the 2025 Japan Brickfest. The goal is to design the most elegant and mesmerizing methods of moving tiny basketballs and s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/11/The-Most-Complicated-Great-Ball-Contraption-Youve-Ever-Seen/The Independent reports that 17 parachutists were preparing for a coordinated jump out of a Cessna Caravan flying out of the airport of Tully, Queensland, Australia.One unlucky skydiver experienced a premature d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/11/Skydriver-Gets-Chute-Trapped-on-Wing/Neal Agarwal has given us plenty of games and web toys at Neal.Fun (previously at Neatorama), but this one takes a left turn into just plain fascinating. Size of Life is a slideshow that compares the size of living thing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/11/Living-Things-Come-in-an-Amazing-Range-of-Sizes/Rosemary Marco is an artist and writer who communicates information about the natural world and the importance of preserving it. She's especially passionate about birds and would like to have their powers.A gular pouch c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/11/Bird-Superpowers/Mateo Zielonka is a world-renowned pasta chef who recently published a cookbook teaching his craft.He's made astonishingly realistic pasta versions of household objects, such as cookpots, and logos, such as the shield of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/11/LEGO-Pasta/Instagram user @nao2748 is a food artist who crafts amazing treats that delight all of the senses. Her projects include focaccia loaves with crab-shaped tomatoes, cake sandwiches with Santa Claus, and cheesecakes shaped...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/11/Frog-Pizza/In this story, trooper TK‑42Greg has been assigned to Hoth to make sure the holiday is festive. It's a losing battle. While there, he is sent on a mission to deliver socks to an outpost while a blizzard rages. No...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/10/Happy-Hothidays-Storm-Troopers-Enjoy-a-Holiday-on-Hoth/The Franco-Prussian War lasted less than a year, but it was a particularly hard time for Paris. The Germans surrounded the city and began a siege. No one could get out, nor could supplies be brought in, for five months....
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/10/1870-Eating-Elephant-for-Christmas/You probably travel with just carry-on luggage if you have to fly (I do), because not only does checked baggage cost extra, there's a chance you may never see that suitcase again in one piece. What do airlines do to caus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/10/The-Truth-About-Airline-Baggage-Transport/British-American actor Roddy McDowall appeared in all three of the original Planet of the Apes films in the role of Dr. Cornelius. In the third film, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, he finds himself...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/10/The-Quest-for-the-Planet-of-the-Apes-Robe/YouTuber Builda Dad Garage builds extraordinary vehicles in his workshop, mostly extreme vehicles designed to tackle the roughest environments. These include tracked wheelchairs, dually go-karts, minibikes with mower att...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/10/All-Terrain-Motorized-Ladder/The reason we have two eyes is so that we can judge distance by stereo vision. The reason we have two ears is that the difference between the sound they pick up tells us what direction that sound is coming from. You can...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/09/The-Surprising-Reasons-We-Have-Two-Nostrils/Radiohead's famous single "Creep" is spoken from the point of view of a man who's a bit creepy because the object of his love does not return it. He's watching his subject very carefully. He's making a list and he's chec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/09/Radioheads-Creep-as-a-Christmas-Carol/Hanukkah begins at sundown on Sunday, December 14th, and runs through sundown on Monday the 22nd. Every year, we get a new crop of Hanukkah songs that are set to the tunes of pop songs we all know. Some of the groups hav...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/09/Its-Going-to-Be-a-iKPop-Demon-Huntersi-Hanukkah/Eric Coquin Poirier is a Québécois musician and inventor of musical instruments. He's especially fond of modifying accordions, guitars, and harmonicas to create one-man bands or instruments for people...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/09/The-Harp-Reactor-Is-a-Combination-Harmonica-and-Accordion/Austin Dirks was hiking in Arches National Park in Utah this past Sunday, and became trapped in quicksand. Now, we've addressed the cinematic reputation of quicksand before, and know that you're not going to drown in it....
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/09/Trapped-In-and-Rescued-From-Quicksand-in-Utah/Tom BetGeorge has spent years trying to outdo himself with his computerized Halloween and Christmas light shows (so much that he's built a light show business out of his success). He's choreographed them to Star Wars...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/08/Tom-BetGeorges-Most-Traditional-Christmas-Light-Show-Yet/The end of 2025 is coming, and we're starting to see year-end recaps about anything and everything. The lists are interesting, but the videos make you feel what the year gone past was like. Google's Year in Search video...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/08/Googles-Year-in-Search-for-2025/Look! It's Princess Groot, and she's a Christmas tree! Montreal Comiccon is so popular they do it twice a year, once in July and again in December for their Holiday Edition. The Holiday Edition was this weekend, to give...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/12/08/Cosplayers-Got-Into-the-Spirit-of-Christmas-at-Montreal-Comiccon-Holiday-Edition/
