In reference to the book Cranioklepty by Colin Dickey, Keith Thomson writes at The Huffington Post about the hobby of skull collecting. Among the most famous skulls held in collections might be that of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/18/for-sale-beethovens-skull/Peter Rombough, a biologist at Brandon University in Canada, has conducted a study on the functions of fish gills. He concludes that although gills may allow a fish to breathe, that might not be the original reason why...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/18/fish-may-not-have-evolved-gills-to-breathe/Iberico ham began selling in London for £1,800 for a 15-pound leg joint. It's the world's most expensive pork, raised in western Spain and delivered in luxurious conditions: The pigs were fed on a diet of acorns...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/18/worlds-most-expensive-ham-costs-2942-usd/(YouTube Link) YouTube user brusspup is fond of creating optical illusions. We've recently featured one that looks like two lug nuts. His latest is this Pac-Man scene painted on the walls of a house. via Urlesq...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/18/pac-man-illusion/In this infographic, Stephen Von Worley observes that the number of discrete colors in a box of Caryola Crayons doubles about every 28 years. That's an annual growth rate of 2.56%. Von Worley writes: If the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/18/crayolas-law-the-number-of-colors-doubles-every-28-years/Artist Cole Blaq made a display that looks like fire -- except that it's made of LEGOs. It is a larger version of a sculpture that he presented at a LEGO competition in Munich. More pictures at the link. Link vi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/18/realistic-lego-flames/As Clark Kent, Superman was raised as a Methodist. While growing up in Smallville, Kansas, Clark Kent attended Sunday church services at the local Methodist church with his mother, Martha Kent, every week until he w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/18/the-religious-affiliation-of-comic-book-characters/Sometimes you can see something in the shape of an animal's spots, but have you ever seen a cat shape on the back of a cat? Link -via The Daily WhatCat, spots...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/18/a-cat-on-a-cat/I had no idea Megadeth song titles could be confused for Lifetime channel movie titles, but that's the challenge of today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss. I am an expert on neither, so I only scored 60%. You will do...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/18/lifetime-movie-or-megadeth-song/The cost of putting things into space is astronomical, to say the least. Getting things into space takes more fuel than moving them from planet to planet because of gravity. So what if we had a new method for se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/18/a-cannon-for-shooting-supplies-into-space/Every once in a while, people encounter things on their radio, TV, or interstellar wave detectors that no one can explain. Is it a secret military message? A prankster hacking just to see if it can be done? Aliens trying...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/18/the-5-creepiest-unexplained-broadcasts/
