February 29th is a day that only appears on calendars once every four years, which we call Leap Year. It makes up for the fact that a year is actually 365.25 days long. Why do we put that extra day in February? I used to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/28/Why-Leap-Day-is-in-February/People love to gossip, and gossip about someone famous travels wider and is remembered longer than gossip about your neighbors. Some bizarre and totally made-up stories about royalty find new life in print (see any tablo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/28/Conspiracy-Theories-About-the-British-Royal-Family/Korean YouTuber 아픈 니가 청춘 is 193 centimeters tall, or 6' 4". All his life, he's been the odd man out, with people staring at him and asking if he plays basketball. In this video, he goes to Netherlands, where...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/28/A-Korean-Man-Visits-the-Land-of-Giants/How large are US factory farms, really? According to data from the US Department of Agriculture, the most recent record in 2022 was a little over 10 billion animals being raised for consumption. This is almost a 100% inc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/28/These-Charts-Show-How-Big-US-Factory-Farms-Really-Are/Redditor /u/PattonPending and their friends taught their commanding officer, a captain in the US Army, how to play Dungeons & Dragons. They wanted to schedule a campaign, but there were multiple scheduling conflicts....
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/28/In-the-Army-You-Can-Be-Ordered-to-Play-Dungeons-Dragons/Jim Simons is an American mathematician who turned hedge fund manager when he founded Renaissance Technologies, hiring several physicists, mathematicians, astronomers, and statisticians to work on the Medallion Fund, whi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/28/How-Jim-Simons-Became-the-Richest-Mathematician-Alive/Twitter user Harry Jeffries shares this image of a map that his grandfather made of Scotland using rocks from that nation over the past 30 years. He's an amateur geologist and this map is geologically accurate, as the ro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/28/A-Geologically-Accurate-Map-of-Scotland/<p>It must be a completely surreal experience to be able to remember everything that you have seen, heard, felt, or experienced in any way, down to the minute detail. <a href="https://lithub.com/the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/28/The-Case-of-Solomon-Shereshevsky-How-Memory-and-Imagination-Intertwine/<p>Traditional IQ tests usually measure an individual's mathematical ability, logical reasoning, and language proficiency, but many have found these types of tests to be lacking. Although these types of tes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/28/The-Thing-About-IQ-Tests/<p>The current film rating system that the Motion Pictures Association of America implements did not start out with five different tiers. It was in the 1930s when Hollywood began to self-regulate and impose...
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