On May 18th, 1927, a series of bombings took place in Bath Township, Michigan. Before the day was over, 45 people were dead, including several school administrators, two teachers, and 38 children in grades two through si...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/23/The-Biggest-Mass-Murder-in-an-American-School/McCallie School is a private boarding school for boys in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Several years ago, the school asked sixth graders to propose questions that they would answer when they were ready to graduate.The Chat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/23/Graduating-High-School-Seniors-Answer-Questions-from-Their-6th-Grade-Selves/SLAW DOG WITH COMEBACK VICTORY pic.twitter.com/rQ1AHWTImN— Sickos Committee (@SickosCommittee) May 23, 2025 KTLA 5 News reports that all 6 of Oscar Mayer's Wienermobiles gathered at the Indianapolis Motor Speedw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/23/All-6-Oscar-Mayer-Wienermobiles-Race-on-Indianapolis-Speedway/Yesterday, Kermit the Frog delivered the commencement address to graduating students at the University of Maryland. Inside Higher Ed reports that Kermit passed on what he has learned over the 70 years of his life. The Un...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/23/Kermit-the-Frog-Delivers-Commencement-Address/"Jargon" refers to language that only means something to a specific group of people, such as a workplace. When it has something to do with that work, it functions perfectly well and rarely escapes into family or social l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/23/The-Scourge-of-Nonsensical-Corporate-Jargon/Embed from Getty ImagesJohan Helberg of Trondheim, Norway, was awakened when he heard someone knocking at his door at 5 AM Thursday, but he didn't want to get up to open it. Only when the neighbor outside called his ph...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/23/Man-Wakes-Up-to-Container-Ship-in-Front-Yard/Long ago, people said that cats should never be allowed near babies because they would snatch the baby's breath away. Later on, I heard that cats who appear to be doing that are just investigating a baby's mouth because...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/22/Kitten-Cant-Get-Enough-of-His-Baby-Sister/When I was a young adult, my dad would always ask if I'd checked my oil lately. I'd been reading a dipstick since I was too young to drive, along with other car maintenance tasks he taught me. But all these years later,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/22/The-Death-of-the-Dipstick/We are all familiar with Medusa, the mythological Gorgon with snakes for hair and the ability to turn men to stone just by making eye contact. But how much do you know about her backstory? In ancient Greek mythology, she...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/22/Theres-More-to-the-Story-of-Medusa-Than-You-Ever-Imagined/It was a great day when tracking animals went from finding them embedded with arrows to putting bands on their legs. Now an even less burdensome method is being tested to track an endangered species. The Welsh water vole...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/21/Tracking-an-Endangered-Species-with-Sparkly-Poop/Actor George Wendt passed away yesterday at age 76. Wendt appeared in several TV shows and quite a few movies, but he was best known for his role as Norm Peterson on the sitcom Cheers, which ran from 1982 to 199...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/21/A-Compilation-Reel-of-Every-Norm-Entrance-on-iCheersi/Slovak engineer Stefan Klein scooted ahead of companies working on prototype helicopter hybrids and electric flying machines to bring his AirCar through testing and certification in Slovakia. It is scheduled to go into m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/21/Here-is-the-First-Flying-Car-To-Go-Into-Mass-Production/When we first heard about the live-action remake of the 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, there was suddenly a lot of hype, and a lot of criticism for all kinds of reasons: the casting, the CGI dwarfs,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/20/An-Honest-Trailer-for-iSnow-Whitei/A few years ago, redditor Josh Wright converted an old treadmill into a belt sander.He stripped apart the treadmill (which was no longer useful for its original purpose) and then attached a new 1-HP motor. Wright built a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/20/Turning-a-Treadmill-into-a-Belt-Sander/What should we call this instrument? It is guitarrdion? An accoritar? The Ukrainian-language website provides us with no information, but the instrument appears to have the bellows and keys of an accordion bisecting an a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/20/A-Combination-Guitar-and-Accordion/Argentinian developer Max Comperatore built a website that tracks how many people are engaged in common activities round the world. What The Hell Are People Doing uses estimated statistics from a number of sources to cal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/20/What-Is-Everyone-Doing-Right-Now/Capuchin monkeys have been caught abducting baby howler monkeys — and no one knows exactly why. Scientists are baffled. See the first-time footage: https://t.co/DsmdRbMhOT— Smithsonian Magazine (@Smithsonia...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/19/Kidnapping-is-the-Latest-Fad-Among-Capuchin-Monkeys/Dante Brown's Saab broke down on Interstate 610 in Houston. Instead of calling a tow truck, he called his girlfriend to come and tow the car. She brought her Ford Expedition, but had no towing equipment outside of a sing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/19/How-iNoti-to-Tow-a-Car/Being an early adopter can come with a price. I once bought a used car that was from the first year of an exciting new model. I eventually realized that this fact explained why it was so cheap- the bugs hadn't been worke...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/19/The-Adventures-of-Mark-Twain-and-the-Paige-Compositor/Laurence Brown of Lost in the Pond has been in the US for years, and is now an American citizen, but still recalls enough about Britain to compare and contrast the two countries. This video is about a grocery shopping tr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/18/US-vs-British-Grocery-Stores/Who eats more pizza- Americans or Italians? You might guess that the US consumes the most pizza, simply because we have so many people, and you'd be right. But when you take the larger population out of the equation and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/18/Which-Country-Eats-the-Most-Pizza/One thing we've always heard about the United States' national anthem is that it is hard to sing, what with that one high note near the end. We've hear it all our lives, from beautiful performances to versions that are l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/18/A-New-Tune-for-The-Star-Spangled-Banner/How often do you think about the cuisine of the Roman Empire? For most men, at least once a day is common. Vocatio Romae in corde cuiusque hominis latet. Now the glory of Rome can be consumed at a pop-up restaurant in Po...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/18/Pop-Up-Restaurant-Offers-Roman-Food/The town of Anahuac on Galveston Bay is called the "Alligator Capital of Texas." The waters near it are filled with these dangerous predators. But you can still visit and prove that you're at the top of the food chain.Cu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/18/Texas-Leather-Company-Helps-You-Hunt-an-Alligator-Then-Turns-the-Hide-into-Boots/Orange cats, also called ginger cats, have a reputation as being male, large, very food-motivated, and kind of goofy. Scientists at Kyushu University in Japan and Stanford University, working on a crowdfunded project, ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/17/Scientists-Find-the-Reason-Oranges-Cats-Are-the-Way-They-Are/Great Big Story introduces us to the NYO Games. Young people across Alaska's native communities come together to compete in twelve sports. These events are developed from the practical needs of natives engaging in huntin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/17/The-Native-Alaskan-Games-Are-Sports-Taken-from-Practical-Traditions/Warning: gory animation. Lee Hardcastle (previously at Neatorama) is a claymation animator with a penchant for violence. Where can he go for the inspiration to outdo his previous videos? Video games, of course, since the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/17/Claycat-Presents-the-Ultimate-in-Claymation-Violence/The space probe Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 and is currently 25 billion kilometers (15.6 billion miles) away from earth. The fact that it's still sending signals to earth after 48 years is amazing enough, but a recent...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/17/Extreme-Remote-Control-NASA-Engineers-Repair-Voyager-1s-Thrusters/Bitsy the cat was born with nine lives, six legs and one loving heart. Now, Christine Koltun says the one-year-old cat is well on her way to having a new lease on life.A fun story from me today: https://t.co/8L32lpmKJq...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/16/Six-legged-Cat-Now-Down-to-Three-Legs/Warning: this video contains spoilers for a 42-year-old movie. Yoda's final scene in Return of the Jedi was quite emotional for Star Wars fans. You might look at it a bit differently now that the...
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