The "internet bench" at Abbey Gardens in Bury St Edmunds, UK, was installed in 2001 as a place you can get connected. There was no wifi at the time, so the bench's phone connections could be useful for that, but there we...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/06/15/The-Worlds-First-Internet-Bench/Stewart Adams spent a large chunk of his life searching for a cure for rheumatoid arthritis. He failed in that endeavor, a regret he never really got over. But he did invent an effective treatment for arthritis,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/06/15/The-Inventor-of-Ibuprofen-Tested-the-Drug-on-His-Own-Hangover/The outrageous characters of the Old West are often found to be the product of dime novels and less-than-rigorously researched newspaper articles written to thrill those back east. One such character is "Cattle Kate," bo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/06/15/A-Lynching-in-Wyoming-A-Case-of-Legal-and-Historical-Injustice/Ze Frank gives us true facts about cats in a way that makes it clear that cats are weird. You knew that already, but this video goes into detail about cats' carnivorous tastes, amazing eyes, sensitive whiskers, and scrat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/06/15/True-Facts-Cats-Killer-Senses/Someone took a train in Switzerland last October and deboarded quite a bit lighter. They left behind a package filled with gold bars worth more than $190,000! You'd have to be pretty oblivious to leave that much behind b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/06/15/Did-You-Lose-Some-Gold-in-Switzerland/<p>I’ve seen a caution sign in a mall before telling me that I might get hurt because the floor is wet. I’ve also seen a caution sign on our induction stove, telling me that the ceramic plate is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/06/15/A-Strange-Caution-Sign-Indeed/Insomnia could be considered as one of the toughest disorders a person can have. While it may be considered by some as just a sleep disorder caused by stress and anxiety, it is much more than that. A person suffering ins...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/06/15/A-Comforting-Message-For-The-Insomniac/View this post on Instagram It really sucks that I can’t go, but if you’re close to Portland this weekend, don’t miss the opening of LAX/PDX at @antlerpdx . This awesome show curated by L.A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/06/15/Marie-Claude-Marquis-s-Hilariously-Foul-Decorative-Plates/<p>Who would want to be a web-slinging superhero or an armed man in a village killing zombies and other monsters when he can be a cat trying to escape in a cybercity? That’s right. This game, titled S...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/06/15/This-Game-Will-Let-You-Be-A-Cat/<p>When Charlotte Morrison decided to strip all the wallpaper layers in one of her house’s rooms, she found something interesting — a decades-old message that was hidden on the wall. It was a wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/06/15/A-Decades-Old-Wallpapering-Tip-Found-Hidden-On-A-Wall/Even if you never eat a Kit-Kat bar, you know the song. You'd have to be pretty young to not know it. Now we learn the story behind the ear worm from the man who wrote it. -via Digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/06/15/The-True-Story-Behind-the-Iconic-Kit-Kat-Jingle/The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the oldest and the most intact of them all. Constructed in the third millennium BC, we marvel at all the labor and time it took to build it. We...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/06/15/How-Many-People-Did-it-Take-to-Build-the-Great-Pyramid/In 1945, an ambulance delivered a very ill man to Boston’s U.S. Public Health Service Hospital. The ambulance driver gave the patient's name as Charles Jamison, but then left. The hospital treated the man for a bon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/06/15/The-Curious-Mystery-of-Charles-Jamison/<p>Japan puts a high standard on customer service. Much is expected from people who work as cashiers in stores; they should be “polite, well-groomed, and efficient.”</p><blockquote>A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/06/15/Two-Important-Things-To-Remember-When-Shopping-In-Japan/As restaurants gradually re-open in countries affected by the pandemic around the world, patrons are noticing more and more that menus are more likely to be digital, accessed from your phone or a screen at the restaurant...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/06/15/Has-Coronavirus-Killed-the-Menu-An-Ode-to-the-Restaurant-Staple/When animals look into a mirror, they are either frightened, or else they think that what they are looking at is the most beautiful creature in the world. So relatable 😂— Ann (@Titsup_Ramble) June 10, 2020 The...
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