<p>Funen, Denmark — It was the winter of 1984, and Timothy Tangherlini was hard at work at the dairy farm. One day, as he was brushing cattle in the barn, he spotted a tiny man in a hat, who was sitti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/16/A-Porridge-For-A-Vengeful-House-Elf/<p>“With the exception of Shakespeare and Spinoza, I know no one among the no longer living who has influenced me more strongly.” These were what Goethe, the famous German poet, has to say about...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/16/Let-s-Get-To-Know-Carl-Linnaeus/<p>Here’s your daily dose of cuteness: tiny kittens. Because if there’s something that could make you say “awww” easily, it’s them. And if you don’t have a reason to smil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/16/Smol-Cats/Rommy De Bommy, an artist in the Netherlands, makes fashion accessories that look just like (and I'm going to guess tastes like) food products. She says that they're made of clay and "and little bit of magic." She can ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/16/Rommy-De-Bommy-s-Food-Purses/The latest mashup from YouTuber There I Ruined It (previously) features Billy Idol singing a lively Christmas song. The tune of "Jingle Bells" fits the lyrics of "Dancing With Myself," but that doesn't mean it's a good t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/16/Dancing-With-Myself-Christmas-Edition/<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Now that’s wicked! The Morus, designed by Roy Yan and Axe Yi, is a tiny vacuum dryer that can completely dry and de-wrinkle your clothes in a few...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/16/This-Tabletop-Dryer-Can-Dry-Clothes-In-Fifteen-Minutes/<p>Researchers have discovered a new superhighway network in the Solar System recently. Through this “celestial highway”, comets and asteroids near Jupiter are driven to Neptune’s distance...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/16/A-New-Superhighway-In-The-Solar-System-Was-Discovered/<p>Because if there’s something that you should do if you have big muscles, it’s to show them off, and this 5-year-old kangaroo named Jack knows just how to do that. When his name was called, he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/16/Kangaroo-Shows-Off-His-Muscles/This is the Simeis 147, a supernova remnant known by many names. It is also cataloged as Sharpless 2-240, and the Spaghetti Nebula, probably because of its reddish appearance.Seen toward the boundary of the constellation...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/16/The-Spaghetti-Nebula/There are many types of fungus that will invade insects in order to reproduce, but most kill the host and then release spores. Two new species of fungus discovered in Denmark consume their fly hosts from the inside out,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/16/Two-New-Species-of-Fungi-that-Turn-Flies-into-Zombies/Blob Opera is an experimental generator in which you control four opera voices coming out of cute and colorful blobs. It's a bit limited in lyrics, but luckily it's also limited in letting you mix something out of tune....
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/16/Blob-Opera/<p>In order to keep people safe from each other, masks are required at all times at Walt Disney theme parks in Florida. However, this protocol doesn’t seem to be strictly implemented in the parks, and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/16/Disney-World-s-Putting-Virtual-Face-Masks-Over-Maskless-Visitors/<p>Youtuber <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOk_qgWaR7b9JmB1sSI3TnA" target="_blank" style="color: var(--yt-endpoint-hover-color, var(--yt-spec-text-primary));">...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/16/The-owner-bought-the-stuffed-toy-but-was-robbed-by-him/<p>Caylee Gilson realized that it was time to say goodbye to her large sectional when she moved to her new apartment, and so she put it up on sale on her local Facebook Marketplace. On the social media site...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/16/Mom-Brings-Home-Couch-She-Just-Bought-Doesn-t-Notice-The-Stowaway-Cat-Hiding-In-It/Toby Turner, also known as Tobuscus, made an excellent literal trailer of Assassin’s Creed: Origins, and in his version of the trailer you’ll learn at least two things: one, the bad guy’s feet should ne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/16/A-Literal-Trailer-of-Assassin-s-Creed-Origins/<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">With the amount of stress we’re experiencing, surely, some want to have skincare products that lessen the effects of stress on our faces, right? T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/16/Buyers-Claim-That-This-Salt-Scrub-On-Amazon-Made-Their-Skin-Look-Younger/If you were watching TV at all between 2006 and 2010, you are probably familiar with Lost. The series started out promisingly, with a plane crash and a group of survivors on a mysterious island. But this drama w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/16/An-Honest-Trailer-for-iLosti/Day 2 of my #AdventCalendar [sound up] pic.twitter.com/BhpVBWjbIK— Amanda (@Pandamoanimum) December 2, 2020 Twitter user @Pandamoanimum put together an Advent calendar to spread joy and laughter for the holida...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/16/An-Advent-Calendar-of-Christmas-Calamities/<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Yikes! SpaceX’s new Starship exploded after a test flight in a remote corner of Texas. The Starship SN8 is claimed to be the rocket ship that coul...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/16/SpaceX-Starship-SN8-Explodes-On-Landing/Let's go four decades back in time, back the set of the best Star Wars movie, The Empire Strikes Back. Good Morning America premiered almost seven minutes of footage from the film set, from the difficul...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/16/Never-Before-Seen-Footage-from-The-Empire-Strikes-Back/By the time the Christmas season of 1918 rolled around, the influenza pandemic had raged around the US for months. Cases were going down in some areas, up in others. How could people keep the Christmas spirit and still s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/16/What-the-Pandemic-Christmas-of-1918-Looked-Like/<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Well, at least you get both options, right? With </span><a href="https://us.goat-story.com/" target="_blank" styl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/16/This-2-In-1-Coffee-Grinder-Will-Let-You-Grind-Your-Beans-Automatically-Or-By-Hand/<p>Comedy Show that will have you on the floor in laughter! The best of the best in comedy shows online! Get a front row seat now to Episode 5: "Taking a Chance".</p><p><a href=&quo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/16/He-s-Back-Again-This-time-he-s-taking-a-chance/It is common for a store to try to make you buy stuff from it. After all, it is a store and that is its job. And then there’s this store which discourages you from buying any stuff that it sells. Talk about unique....
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/12/16/Don-t-Buy-Anything-Here/
