You'd be forgiven if you thought that the photos here are of a high end boutique store. It's actually [Starbucks' first location in Italy](https://news.starbucks.com/press-releases/starbucks-arrives-in-milan-it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/09/08/The-Most-Beautiful-Starbucks-in-the-World/Nora Emily Fornario, known as Netta, was a young woman in England who had a lifelong fascination with magic. She studied occult subjects along with like-minded friends in the 1920s. Netta was drawn to Scotland, specifica...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/09/08/Exposed-to-the-Elements-A-Strange-1920s-Death-on-the-Scottish-Island-of-Iona/Heinz (yes, the ketchup company) once ventured into the beverage market in the 1970s. They decided to make a fruit drink and called it "[Concentrated Help Fruit Drink](http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comme...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/09/08/Heinz-Once-Made-a-Fruit-Drink-and-Called-it-Concentrated-Help/Hungarian photographer Balint Alovits scoured the city of Budapest for amazing spiraling staircases for his photo series "[Time Machine](http://www.balintalovits.com/time-machine/)." > "The ins...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/09/08/Amazing-Photos-of-Spiral-Staircases-in-Budapest-by-Balint-Alovits/There's so much about the world that children are expected to just pick up from their environment. That means so many things are only half-learned because we don't realize what we are misunderstanding. Ross McClearly ask...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/09/08/Dumb-Things-People-Believed-as-Kids/Smart (and very eco-conscious): picking up trash in the canals of Amsterdam Smarter: Get someone else to do it for you. GENIUS: ... and make them pay to do it! [PlasticWhale](https://www.facebook.com/pg/PlasticW...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/09/08/How-Amsterdam-Cleans-up-Its-Canals-Get-Paying-Tourists-to-Pick-up-the-Trash/Around the turn of the 20th century, fire stations in New York City were allowed to have one dog as a mascot, or one cat, but not both. Of course, they all had horses to pull the fire engines. Engine Company No. 31 and N...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/09/08/Mrs-Herman-Monkey-Firefighter/It's been a popular tidbit from history that doctors during the Victorian era once treated hysteria in women by manually stimulating them to orgasm. This made doctors popular but tired, so Joseph Mortimer Granville inven...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/09/08/Victorian-Era-Orgasms-and-the-Crisis-of-Peer-Review/
