"Weird Al" Yankovic's very first single was "My Bologna." He wrote the song in 1979, the same year that The Knack took over our radios with "My Sharona." Yankovic recorded it in a bathroom for the Dr. Demento Show, and i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/16/A-Stop-Motion-Video-for-My-Bologna/In the 1500s, cartographer Robert Thorne floated the idea that the North Pole wasn't covered with ice, but merely was protected by a ring of ice around it. In the 19th century, August Petermann resurrected the idea, and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/16/The-Doomed-iJeannettei-Arctic-Expedition/<p>A man by the name of Jonathan Childe, an army officer, had fallen into the delusion that the young Queen Victoria was madly in love with him. At the time, she was only 18 years old and had just met her f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/16/The-Trial-That-Proved-Queen-Victoria-s-Stalker-s-Guilt/<p>Many people have probably heard about the Ten Commandments which God gave Moses on Mount Sinai. But though these summed up the basic moral laws that God told his people to keep, they were not the only la...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/16/Strange-Biblical-Laws-Most-People-Don-t-Know-About/Having watched a lot of Saturday morning TV in the 1960s, I was aware of the Easy-Bake Oven, but I never really craved one until I got to elementary school and found out that many of the girls in my class had one. I aske...
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