When archivists at the Museum of English Rural Life opened a box full of old books from the 18th century, they ran across a gem: a mathematics book that belonged to a 13-year-old teenager named "Richard Beal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/10/14/18th-Century-Chicken-Wearing-Pants/Today, Eartha Kitt is most known for her songs "C'est si bon" and "Santa Baby" and her turn as Catwoman on the Batman TV series. But her first recording, and her first hit, was "Uska Dara," which she learned and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/10/14/The-Surprising-Story-of-Eartha-Kitt-in-Istanbul/Ignoramusky is back, with a new compilation of the smartest, clumsiest, and funniest Russian cats around! Bonus: Many of the clips are enhanced with appropriate musical soundtracks....
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/10/14/All-Cats-Are-Different/Tired of delivery drivers not finding his house, a resident of Rancho Santa Margarita in California named "Bob" decided to take matters into his own hands: he put up a traffic sign, telling them where to find "Bob's Hous...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/10/14/Where-s-Bob-s-House/When soldiers marched to the office of Abiy Ahmed with Kalashnikovs and sniper rifles, angrily demanding pay raises, the Ethiopian Prime Minister didn't get scared. Instead, he demanded the soldiers do push ups...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/10/14/Soldiers-Challenged-Ethiopia-Prime-Minister-with-Guns-He-Challenged-Them-Back-to-do-Push-Ups/In 2013, Chris Reynolds briefly became the world's richest man when a Paypal glitch caused his account to swell to a whopping $92,233,720,368,547,800 Unfortunately, Paypal giveth and Paypal taketh away. When Rey...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/10/14/The-92-Quadrillion-Dollar-Man/Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales was the granddaughter of King George III, and the only confirmed child of the Prince of Wales who eventually became King George IV. Charlotte was second in line for the monarchy her en...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/10/14/The-Tragic-Death-of-Princess-Charlotte-Augusta/Someone in Savannah, Georgia, put googly eyes on the city's statue of Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene. The city responded by venting its outrage on Facebook. Who did this?! Someone placed googly eyes on our hi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/10/14/City-Officials-Go-Nuts-Over-Enhanced-Statue/You know the Pallas's cat as the fluffy, [twitchy,](https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/27/pallas-cat-cubs-at-12-weeks/) rare wildcat of Central Asia. This video takes a deep dive into what makes the Pallas's cat different...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/10/14/Pallas-s-Cat-The-Original-Grumpy-Cat/Meet the [Pacu fish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacu), a South American freshwater fish related to the piranha. But unlike the piranha, which has pointed razor-sharp teeth, the Pacu fish has straight teeth tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/10/14/This-Fish-Has-Human-Teeth/The "[Sruth in Aghaidh an Aird](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sruth_in_Aghaidh_an_Aird)" waterfall (translated as "stream against the height", AKA the Devil's Chimney waterfall) in Ireland is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/10/14/Water-Flows-Up-in-The-Devil-s-Chimney-Waterfall/Sphen and Magic are a gay penguin couple at Sea Life Sydney Aquarium in Australia. During breeding season, aquarium staff gave the couple a dummy egg to practice incubating ... and the gay penguins turned out t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/10/14/These-Gay-Penguins-Are-Hatching-an-Egg-Together/In 1961, ten scientists - including Frank Drake, Melvin Calvin and Carl Sagan - met in a secret meeting at a rural observatory in West Virginia to discuss how they would find, and talk to, aliens. This meeting la...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/10/14/The-Order-of-the-Dolphin-and-the-Secret-Origin-of-SETI/Air India Express Boeing 737-800 slammed into a wall at the end of the runway during takeoff and ripped a large part of the undercarriage ... but the pilots didn't notice and continued flying
