Mental Floss put together this interesting list of facts about life as an employee in the warehouses of Amazon. One aspect addressed is the metal detectors by which warehouse workers must be scanned prior to leaving the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/29/13-Secrets-of-Amazon-Warehouse-Employees/Roy Blakey spent 15 years as a professional ice skater with various shows, including Holiday on Ice, during its heyday in the mid-20th century. Along the way, he began to collect souvenirs, and now is an avid collector o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/29/When-Ice-Was-Hot/The Norwegian design firm Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter recently renovated and occupied a Nineteeth Century villa in Oslo as its new studio. Much of the second floor consists of large sheets of glass support...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/29/Workplace-with-a-Transparent-Floor-What-Could-Possibly-Go-Wrong/Breakdancing is a pretty flashy form of dance in its own right, but what happens when you pump up the flash factor by adding some fireworks into the mix?You get one dangerous looking dance routine that lights up the nigh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/29/Incredible-Breakdancing-Routine-Performed-With-Fireworks-Strapped-To-Their-Feet/Now you know. Consider yourself warned.According to a 2012 census by the US Department of Agriculture, there are 2,621,514 goats in the United States. Christopher Ingram of the Washington Post n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/29/A-Map-of-Every-Goat-in-the-United-States/Grammar Girl and Quick and Dirty Tips author Mignon Fogarty writes this list of top ten grammar myths, which has points that might fool even the most contentious of internet grammar hawks. But there's one t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/29/Top-Ten-Grammar-Myths/French Kissers by tomburnsFor centuries they'd yelled "Vive la France!" before heading into battle, but when they heard the sounds made by The Demon and those face painted fret freaks from a little band called Kiss they...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/29/French-Kissers-Forget-Detroit-Paris-Is-The-New-Rock-City/Redditor dfreshv is brilliant! Take a peanut butter Oreo, a strawberry/raspberry Oreo, remove a cookie end from each, combine what's left, and you've got a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Make a bunch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/29/Genius-Invents-Peanut-Butter-and-Jelly-Oreos/[http://youtu.be/PeMGRMwarKI] (YouTube link)Jack Storms is a glass artist who doesn’t melt glass. Instead, he cuts and polishes and assembles solid glass into beautiful works of shininess. He says it can take 18 we...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/29/Cold-Glass-Sculpture/(Photos: Core77)Saunas are a big deal in Finland. In fact, the word sauna is of Finnish origin. So for Finns, luxury accommodations must include a hot steambath. Skybox 408 at the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki offers guests...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/29/Extreme-Luxury-Stadium-Skybox-Has-a-Built-in-Sauna/[http://youtu.be/rqbomTIWCZ8]YouTube LinkThis funny commercial for Snickers set to air during the Super Bowl adds Steve Buscemi and Danny Trejo to the classic Brady Bunch episode in which Marcia gets sma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/29/Snickers-Super-Bowl-Commercial-Adds-Buscemi-Trejo-to-the-Brady-Bunch/Domino’s Pizza has always taken a rather lighthearted approach to advertising (remember the Noid?) but when it comes to creating national ad campaigns it can be really easy to take humor too far.Take this Sriracha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/29/The-Racy-Ad-Campaign-Dominos-Pizza-Doesnt-Want-You-To-See/According to the Marine Wildlife Watch of the Philippines, an exceedingly rare megamouth shark washed ashore in Marigondon, Pioduran, Albay yesterday morning. The specimen, which was no longer alive, was thought to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/29/Rare-Megamouth-Shark-Washes-Ashore-in-the-Philippines/[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXuc7SAyk2s](Video Link)If you were in Phoenix, Arizona on Tuesday, then you died. I hope it was quick and relatively painless. Temperatures spiked at selected areas around the city. Wher...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/29/Weatherman-Smoothly-Plays-off-Horrible-Glitches-in-Temperature-Map/This cartogram plots the size of each nation as a factor of its population. It was created by redditor TeaDranks. Each tiny square represents half a million people. You can click the original at imgur to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/29/World-Population-Cartogram-2015/When a breed becomes the latest doggy hotness they star in more mutt combos, like the semi-recent wave of Chihuahua and Corgi combos making the dog world a shorter and stockier place.These mixes of popular breeds are sur...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/29/Pit-Bull-Dachshund-Mix-Is-A-Thing-Of-Bizarre-Beauty/Gergely Bogányi, a Hungarian pianist, spent 10 years developing what Kelcee Griffis of My Modern Met calls "the piano of the future." It's a beautiful form, but the Bogányi piano is more than just a th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/29/The-Piano-of-the-Future-Looks-Like-It-Comes-with-Warp-Drive/Krustywise by BrinkerhoffKrusty lost his daytime television gig and was now looking for a new way to vent his clowny frustration and paint the town red, so he decided to change his act into one guaranteed to scare the k...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/29/Krustywise-His-Act-Will-Knock-You-Dead/[http://youtu.be/1yD7NC2Urdw] (YouTube link)This ad for the French cable channel Canal+ from the ad agency BETC Paris gives a little twist to the old story of why there are no unicorns in existence today. Yeah, the setti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/29/Where-Are-The-Unicorns/(Image Link)The ninja has become such an archetypal figure in the world of pop culture that ninjafans assume they know all there is to know about the shadowy assassins in black because they've seen all the movies and rea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/29/Ten-Lesser-Known-Tools-Used-By-Ninjas/Yesterday, we posted an Oscar story from Eddie Deezen titled The Cruelest Oscar Award Presentation of All-Time. While rounding up photos for the article, I came across another moment from that very same awards ceremony t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/29/The-Oscars-That-Moment-When-You-Realize-You-Lost/Derek Klingenberg is a farmer and YouTube celebrity in Kansas. When we last saw him, he was summoning his cattle by playing Lorde's "Royals" on a trombone. But Klingenberg is a Renaissance man--he's not limited to one fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/29/Kansas-Farmer-Makes-Art-by-Herding-His-Cattle/Harry Houdini was known as the world’s greatest escape artist. But he was never kept confined as a prisoner of the state, where the stakes are higher. Some folks developed a talent for escaping from real incarcerat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/29/5-Criminals-Who-Were-Hilariously-Good-at-Escaping-Jail/(Photo: Inami Wood Carving Collective)The Inami style of wood carving dates back to Eighteenth Century Japan. The master craftsmen there make the finest sculptures and other implements rendered in wood. In addition to mo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/29/The-Traditional-Carved-Wood-Guitars-of-Japan-are-Incredibly-Beautiful/[http://youtu.be/iROYzrm5SBM] (YouTube link)Some Facebook etiquette rules are presented here as a 194s-style educational film. The anachronistic idioms are hilarious! Facebook itself is described here as “the elect...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/29/5-Ways-NOT-To-Handle-A-Nasty-Facebook-Breakup/I grew up watching television—really more than I should have. Back then, to watch a new episode, you had to wait until it aired the next week. If you missed it because you had other plans . . . well, too bad. You m...
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