One generation was traumatized by Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 movie The Birds. Another generation, perhaps their children, learned to get along with their friends and neighbors thanks to an eight-foot feathered frie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/06/07/Big-Bird-Really-Should-Have-Been-in-the-Movie-iThe-Birdsi/When someone references "the world's smallest violin," they mean that their sympathy for you is minuscule and they really don't care. The earliest pop culture reference was in a 1978 episode of M*A*S*H, when Mar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/06/07/Physicists-Create-the-Worlds-Smallest-Violin/A week ago, a man in central Tennessee acquired a pet zebra from a zebra dealer in Texas (of course). It promptly escaped the next day. Zebras are hard to domesticate, so perhaps the zebra did not think of his new reside...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/06/07/Zebra-Escapes-Wanders-Suburbs-in-Tennessee/USA Today reports that Brooklyn Anderson, a high school student student at a state-wide track and field competition in Oregon, stumbled at the end of a 100-meter hurdles race.Even though she was in the lead, tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/06/07/Track-Star-Somersaults-to-Victory-after-Tripping/A 2020 article in the magazine Naval History describes "Frankenships" -- ships that, like Frankenstein's monster, are built from parts of destroyed or damaged vessels.HMS Nubian was a Tribal-cl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/06/07/HMS-Zubian-A-Frankenship-Built-out-of-Halves-of-Two-Damaged-Ships/In February, Wendy Chadwick of Oldham, Manchester, UK died at the age of 51. She was a single mother of five children and, consequently, was not able to follow her dream of traveling the world.BBC News reports that Chadw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/06/07/Woman-Buries-Mother-at-Sea-So-She-Can-Travel-the-World/This true-life story from Brazil would work really well as a premise for a romantic comedy film.Daniela Signor first saw Apollo Scariot two years ago when she attended a funeral he was working. The story, as shared in th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/06/07/Woman-Attends-Funerals-for-2-Years-to-Attract-Funeral-Director/We have a hard time visualizing how big the earth really is. We know intellectually that it's more or less a sphere that's about 24,000 miles around at the middle. From the surface to the sphere's center is 6731 kilomete...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/06/07/A-Visually-Bizarre-Look-at-the-Earths-Incredible-Depth/
