Some 80,000 years ago, a huge iron and nickel meteor landed on earth in what would eventually become the Hoba West farm near Grootfontein in Namibia. In 1920, a farmer ran into the big hunk of metal while plowing, and sc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/26/The-Largest-Meteorite-Ever-Found-Doesnt-Even-Have-a-Crater/Magnificent music mixer Bill McClintock is at it again, with another unlikely rock/soul mashup. Eddie Kendricks never rocked so hard! This one features vocals from The Temptations's 1966 hit "Get Ready" and the music fro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/26/Get-Ready-for-a-Lack-of-Communication-by-the-Ratt-ations/New York City's Waldorf Astoria Hotel was once two hotels, the Waldorf and the Astoria. Both were considered the height of luxury in their day, with electric lights and a bathroom for every suite. The Waldorf Hotel opene...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/26/The-Original-Waldorf-Astoria-Hotel-Was-Built-Out-of-Spite/In this music video, musician Barry Bergen travels to Africa in the 1980s to glean the ancient wisdom of this magical land. Mr Jambo is an older man who must have the enlightenment Bergen is looking for, but he doesn't s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/25/Mr-Jambo-is-a-New-Yet-Strangely-Familiar-Music-Video/I San Diego this weekend? Whether you're a resident or just in town for SDCC, be sure to stop by the Paramount+ Lodge to live out your Star Trek dreams. Because who hasn't wanted to sip on a Vulcan sunset (sadly Romulan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/25/Live-Out-Your-Trekkie-Dreams-at-the-Paramount-Lodge/It's not too early to start preparing for the harsh winter weather coming. This all-terrain vehicle in Hudson, New Hampshire available on Facebook Marketplace is ideal. It's a 1996 Mitsubishi Bravo, which is normally a c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/25/Tracked-Microvan/Suka Sushi in New York City is pioneering a revolutionary new sushi delivery mechanism. It's a push pop! The chefs at this counter service sushi restaurant put high-grade sushi inside. To eat, just push from the bottom,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/25/Sushi-Push-Pops/Embed from Getty ImagesHave you noticed the strange phenomena of ice cream that doesn't melt? When a child drops a scoop or a novelty in your yard, you get the kid another and let the ice cream melt. Then you can pick...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/25/What-in-the-World-Has-Happened-to-Your-Favorite-Ice-Cream/The smallest countries of Oceania, spread across the Pacific, are widely-spaced paradises. They aren't rich, but some of them make a surprising amount of money by getting creative and looking to the future. Vanuatu makes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/24/Tonga-and-the-Business-of-Real-Estate-in-Outer-Space/I majored in history. Why? It was a bad idea and I should have focused on a degree program that leads directly into a meaningful and finanially rewarding career such as online influencer.Dextero reports that Arizona Stat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/24/University-Offers-Bachelors-Program-in-Becoming-an-Online-Influencer/If you grew up in the 80s or 90s, chances are you watched your fair share of Nickelodeon. And if you loved Double Dare, You Can't Do That on Television, or The Kid's Choice Awards, you may have fell in love with the myst...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/24/What-is-Nickelodeons-Slime-Made-of/Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, whom we commonly name as Diocletian, was Emperor of Rome from 284 to 305 A.D. He temporarily brought stability to a fragmenting empire before retiring to an estate in what is now Cro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/24/Upcoming-Film-Conducted-Entirely-in-Latin/Stephanie Stullich of Beltsville Community Cats, a shelter in Maryland, received a call from Pet Supplies Plus that one of their kittens has been stolen from the store. She went down to the store and saw police cars arri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/24/Bank-Robber-Used-Stolen-Kitten-as-Accessory/Oh look! It's July, and we have a trailer for a Christmas ghost story! The trailer says "The name you know, the story you don't." Hogwash. Everyone knows the story of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. There ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/24/Our-First-Look-at-the-Movie-iEbenezeri/Embed from Getty ImagesAt the beginning of World War II, the Soviet Union had an agreement with Hitler to split conquered territories in Europe. The Soviets deported up to a half-million people from occupied Poland to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/23/Digvijaysinhji-Ranjitsinhji-Jadeja-Hero-of-Polish-World-War-II-Orphans/"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" is an informal motto of the US Postal Service. However, mail carriers are not obligated to deli...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/23/Mail-Carrier-Deals-With-an-Increasingly-Tiny-Mailbox/Living in a castle isn't all that great, since they are hard to heat and the wifi is often blocked -and plumbing can be a nightmare. But we still swoon when we see the grandeur of what was built centuries ago. The intera...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/23/A-Map-Thats-All-About-the-Worlds-Castles/Watching someone open a box has never been my cup of tea, but what's inside this one is pretty cool. Gillian Anderson comes out of retirement to portray FBI Special Agent Dana Scully confronting a mysterious delivery. In...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/22/New-LEGO-Set-Pays-Tribute-to-iThe-X-Filesi-with-A-Celebrity-Unboxing/There is a theory that an area of China once called Liqian was settled by around 145 middle-aged Roman soldiers more than two thousand years ago. Roman Legionnaires smack-dab in the middle of China? A clue may lie in the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/22/The-Legend-of-the-Lost-Roman-Legion-in-China/H. H. Holmes is often called "America's First Serial Killer," but if you say that, people will cite Albert Fish, Boone Helm, or the Bloody Benders as earlier examples. And there may have been others we don't know about....
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/22/The-Man-They-Call-Americas-First-Serial-Killer/This is Luceros y Penumbras, a one-of-a-kind pop-up book currently on display at the main branch of the Los Angeles Public Library. The Library Foundation for Los Angeles informs us that it measures 30 feet by 2...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/22/The-Worlds-Largest-Pop-Up-Book-is-30-Feet-Wide/The world has fallen in love with Jimothy, a raccoon that lives in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. He has an adorably abbreviated, stumpy appearance. Smithonian magazine explains that it's most likely due t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/22/Jimothy-the-Raccoon-Dancing-Puppet/The sequel to Mel Brooks' Spaceballs has been 40 years in the making. Well, maybe not, more like 35 years in limbo and is now in the making. Sadly, it won't be Spaceballs: The Search for More Money...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/21/The-iSpaceballsi-Sequel-Will-Skewer-iThe-Force-Awakensi/You can argue about the First Amendment and freedom of speech all day, but when it comes down to individual words and their spelling and usage, we defer to linguist Dr. Erica Brozovsky. She's not a stickler for correct u...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/21/The-Way-Governments-Attempt-to-Standardize-Language/The business world loves to tell how the invention of the automobile wiped out the carriage making business. Yet the coachbuilder D’Ieteren is still thriving 221 years after its founding. It's made the D’Iete...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/21/A-221-year-old-Company-Illustrates-the-Role-of-Flexibility-in-Success/Can you recall all the reasons you loved the 1987 movie RoboCop? Was it because of the cool robots and the violent action scenes? Was it because of your empathy for the character Alex Murphy, who was doomed to l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/20/The-Success-of-iRoboCopi-Was-In-Its-Directors-Craft/It is thought that Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, is the subject of the most non-religious statues on earth, even after many were toppled in the early 1990s. In December of 1958, a Soviet expedition rea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/20/The-Most-Inaccessible-and-Yet-Protected-Statue-of-Lenin/Marc Schulz builds custom mobility scooters that will make you laugh and take you places. One of his models is this scooter designed to resemble the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile. On his Instagram page, you can see appearance...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/20/Wienermobile-Mobility-Scooter/The Heart Attack Grill seemed like a bad idea from the start. That wasn't just a clever name, the Arizona eatery had waitresses dressed like nurses, and offered free food to people over 350 pounds. It was an experie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/20/What-Happened-to-the-Heart-Attack-Grill-and-the-Larger-Story-Behind-It/When Ruth Mae Urdanivia married Jose Urdanivia, a Peruvian diplomat, he life turned into a whirlwind of gentility, world travel, and state occasions. The couple had five children and seemed very happy. Then in 1957, Jose...
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