Redditor /u/Candid-Acadia-2301 made these impressive dumplings that look just like goldfish. These beautiful treats are filled with minced chicken and molded by hand. They added orange food coloring to one batch of dough...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/10/Goldfish-Dumplings/This is the Lycurgus Cup, a glass vessel dating back to Roman Empire of the fourth century. It is made of intricately-carved glass with a strange property. Under normal light, it appears to be an opaque jade green. But l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/09/A-Surviving-Example-of-Ancient-Roman-Nanotechnology/Two brothers play guitar while they pass the time watching their flock of sheep. The sheep appreciate the music, especially the littlest lamb. The older brother, Joseph, attributes his talent to his father's guitar inste...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/09/iFarewelli-is-the-Bittersweet-Story-of-Brothers-Growing-Up/Tusken Raiders in Tuscany, my acrylic painting pic.twitter.com/ooIWp1fjRF— Travis Chapman (@Travispaints) May 8, 2026 Here at Neatorama, we love the works of Travis Chapman, a traditionally-trained painter who c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/09/Tusken-Raiders-in-Tuscany/Closer look at our Masters of the Universe merch coming soon to theatres! ⚔️ pic.twitter.com/FArmxHb5vd— Cinemark Theatres (@Cinemark) May 8, 2026 Masters of the Universe, the latest film in the He-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/09/Masters-of-the-Universe-Merchandise-Includes-a-Sword-You-Can-Drink-out-of/Catfishing is a term for nefarious scams involving false identities, but in this case, it's a word meaning fishing in categories. Articles on Wikipedia are categorized, and an ar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/09/Try-Out-Catfishing-The-Wikipedia-Guessing-Game/The most mundane things can have a way more interesting history than you know. Consider the lowly screwdriver. They come in all shapes and sizes, but the one you grab the most has a handle that is comfortable and just pl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/08/The-History-of-the-Ingenious-Design-of-the-Screwdriver-Handle/Sometimes clues to a disease come from the people who don't get it. A 1950 study of the psychological lives of blind people revealed that there are no cases of people who had been blind since birth developing sc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/08/Congenitally-Blind-People-Appear-to-be-Protected-from-Schizophrenia/The Takeout has compiled a list of 11 tiny eateries in these United States, including the famous Squeeze-In in Sunbury, Pennsylvania.This hot dog joint has been in continous operation since 1945. You might want to order...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/08/The-11-Smallest-Restaurants-in-the-USA/Boxers and other hand-to-hand fighters sometimes get "cauliflower ear", which is referred, medically speaking, as "auricular hematoma." It's a deformity that results most commonly from getting punched in the ear.So a guy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/08/Cosmetic-Procedure-Fake-Cauliflower-Ear/A rat king is an entanglement of rats by their tails. It refers to a rare but real phenomenon among rodents but also a symbol of social and political disorder as outlined by Lucas Reilly in Mental Floss.In this case, it'...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/08/Rat-King-Dumplings/Trying to contain or control the flow of lava from an erupting volcano seems like a fool's errand. It would be much better to avoid building communities anywhere near a volcano. But volcanos can go millions of years betw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/08/How-to-Control-the-Lava-Flow-from-a-Volcano/The latest food hack going viral online is to combine potato chips and chocolate by pouring molten chocolate into cans of Pringles. After it cools, cut the cans off. Then slice the cylinders into chunks of salty chocolat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/08/Combining-Chocolate-and-Pringles/Pacific Counter is a chain of tropical-themed Asian cuisine restaurants in the Tampa Bay area. Among their treats are aloha whip, which is pineapple-flavored soft serve ice cream, and hot dogs.On April Fools' Day, the bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/08/The-Aloha-Whipdog/Most of us, I expect, have used electric irons. I've seen in antiques displays "sad irons", which are slabs of metal that are heated in fireplaces and stoves. There were, though, many alternative designs between these tw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/08/A-Gasoline-Powered-Clothes-Iron/Embed from Getty ImagesIt's already May the eighth in Britain, and so Sir David Attenborough is celebrating his 100th birthday. Born on May 8, 1926, the British broadcaster and naturalist joined the BBC in 1952, when i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/07/Happy-Birthday-Sir-David-Attenborough-Turns-100-Years-Old/Specialized employment, or working a job for money, has existed for only a few thousand years of human history. Before that, people were pretty much all farmers, and before that, we were hunter-gatherers. We think of tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/07/How-Ancient-Hunter-Gatherers-Spent-Their-Time/Or, if you're a bit older, think of the Mikiphone as the world's first Walkman. This invention by Miklós and Étienne Vadász manufactured in Switzerland in 1924 was one of the first means of providing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/07/The-Mikiphone-Was-the-1920s-Version-of-the-iPod/It would not have occurred to me that the landlocked Idaho has access to the sea for oceanic transport, but it does. The Snake River touches the Port of Lewiston on the western border of the state. That river connects to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/07/Idaho-Has-a-Seagoing-Port/Embed from Getty ImagesIn the past few weeks, Americans under 50 have been looking up the siege of the American Embassy in Tehran to understand the tensions between the US and Iran. Meanwhile, other incidents that have...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/07/When-the-British-SAS-Stormed-the-Iranian-Embassy-in-London-to-End-a-Hostage-Situation/New recruits for the Pontifical Swiss Guard are sworn into service annually on May 6. That day is special to these soldiers--the last Papal army in existence--because on that date in 1527, the Swiss Guard made its heroic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/07/The-Swiss-Guard-Performs-Sweet-Caroline/When I started watching this video, I thought it was going to be a rehash of the Lutz family story that inspired The Amityville Horror. But this is one I'd never heard before- it's far less supernatural and ther...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/06/The-Real-Life-Story-That-Inspired-iThe-Watcheri/Embed from Getty ImagesSouth Africa in 1982 was at the height of the apartheid regime. Nelson Mandela was in prison and the revolutionary organization ANC operated in secret from surrounding countries. South Africa was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/06/The-Man-Who-Got-Away-with-Bombing-a-Nuclear-Power-Plant/Before World War II, dirigibles appeared to have a promising future and much effort and money were spent developing them. According to a 1995 article in the US Naval Institute's Proceedings, the first attempt to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/06/The-Only-Metal-Skinned-Blimp-Ever-Operated/Did you know Korea sells “one-a-day” banana packs?Instead of every banana ripening at once, each one is at a different stage.One is ready today.The next one is ready tomorrow.The last one is still spiritual...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/06/One-A-Day-Banana-Packs/The What If? series by Randall Munroe and Henry Reich (previously at Neatorama) tackles submitted theoretical questions seriously, no matter how dumb they seem on the surface. In list of fun facts, we often run across ho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/06/Bananas-are-Radioactive-Could-We-Harness-That-Energy/Embed from Getty ImagesL. Frank Baum published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900, and followed it with 13 more books about Oz. The first book is the most familiar, although it isn't the only Oz story tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/05/The-Best-and-Worst-Adaptations-of-The-Wizard-of-Oz/What happens when a formerly peaceful household is invaded by a cute kitten? Dorothy is a sharp-tongued little old lady who lives with her grandson Adam and a cat named Trigger. I believe they must have named him Trigger...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/05/Grandmas-Hobby-is-Badmouthing-the-Cat/WKRP in Cincinnati was a hit sitcom about a radio station that ran from 1978 to 1982. It inspired me to seek a career in radio, which I kept up for 24 years. WKRP was a fictional station, with call letters...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/05/Life-Finally-Imitates-Art-or-Actually-TV-in-Cincinnati/Anything new and different naturally scares some people. Not all people, but enough people so that Something Had to Be Done. That was usually a ban. Chill Dude Explains brings us ten goofy stories about things we take fo...
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