One of the more active posts on AskReddit today poses the question "What is the fastest you have ever seen a new co-worker get fired?" It's filled with stories that will make you laugh, then question the whole of humanit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/20/Fired-in-a-Hurry/The internet has been arguing about the pronunciation of GIF (graphics interchange format) for years. Honestly, does it really matter? I have never had the word come up in conversation using voice, only in text. But the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/20/Its-Pronounced-GIF/Peru is famous for its Nazca Lines, the giant geoglyphs drawn on the ground, some only visible from high above. A new image has been discovered, that of a cat relaxing on the side of a hill, that has been dated to betwee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/20/120-Foot-Cat-Discovered-in-Peru/The 1984 film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was so different from Raiders of the Lost Ark that it almost turned fans off the character, which made the return-to-form Indiana Jones and the Las...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/20/Everything-Wrong-With-iIndiana-Jones-and-the-Temple-of-Doomi-According-to-Archaeologists/<p>Because of the pandemic, the 80th <a href="http://vertpaleo.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Society of Vertebrate Paleontology</a>’s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/20/Paleontologists-See-Scientific-Terminologies-Censored-In-An-Annual-Conference/Election Day in the United States is November third. Polling places will be set up in schools, government buildings, churches, laboratories, and laundromats. Wait, what? Freelance photographer Ryan Donnell has been docum...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/20/Eight-of-Americas-Most-Unusual-Polling-Places/<p>God bless the power of xCloud. Thanks to Microsoft’s cloud gaming service, gamers can now play their favorite games (that are available on the service) anytime, anywhere. No one expected it to work...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/20/Doom-Eternal-Runs-On-A-Fridge/<p>We’ve seen the ancient female warriors called Amazonians referenced in multiple movies and shows (Wonder Woman is an Amazon, if you remember). For a long period of time, researchers thought that fe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/20/Hey-It-Seems-That-The-Amazons-Were-Real/What can you do with a precise, individual, vertical takeoff and landing transportation system? You can board naval vessels moving at high speed. The Royal Navy received a demonstration of this as a Gravity Industries je...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/20/Jet-Suit-Naval-Commandoes/<p>Police in southern Germany responded to a call from a woman who got an uninvited guest inside her home — a 25-centimeter (10-inch) Chinese mitten crab, which went from the terrace to the open door...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/19/Large-Crab-Goes-Inside-House/It’s not just humans who have it difficult in life. Monsters, too, find living in this world difficult. One finds it hard to accept modern architecture, while another finds it hard to spell its own name.Check out t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/19/It-s-Difficult-To-Be-A-Monster/<p>The shortest unit of time is the time it takes a light particle to cross a hydrogen molecule. The record time for that event is <a href="https://www.livescience.com/zeptosecond-shortest-time-unit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/19/The-Shortest-Time-Unit-Measured/<p>Are our lives something straight out of a Matrix film? Are machines sucking up our life force and turning them into batteries as they make us live in a simulation? Before laughing at the ridiculousness o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/19/There-s-A-Big-Chance-That-We-re-Living-In-A-Simulation/<p>We’re familiar with the grandeur and widely-celebrated olympic games every 2-4 years. But the beginnings of the Olympic games aren’t as widely-accepted, or well-organized. Watch as Puppet His...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/19/The-Disastrous-1904-Olympic-Marathon/<p>Good thing that it’s not the real one. I’m pretty sure no one would agree to be instant food for the sake of thrill. Nijigen no Mori, a new theme park close to Kobe, Japan, is opening a Godzi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/19/Zipline-Straight-To-Godzilla-s-Mouth/<p>Endangered short-tailed chinchillas are one of the main obstacles to a gold mine project. The South American rodent was hunted almost to extinction for its expensive fur. It seems that the animals are in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/19/Chinchillas-And-A-Gold-Mine/<p>The Universal Waste Management System is probably the <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/10/space-toilet-nasa-women/616686/" target="_blank" style="colo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/19/Finally-NASA-Built-A-Space-Toilet-For-Women/<p>The first planes before and during World War I didn’t pose much danger. Back then, they were only used for reconnaissance and surveillance of enemy territory. Information back then was as valuable...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/19/The-Evolution-of-the-Fighter-Plane/A small colony of short-tailed chinchillas live quietly in the mountains of northern Chile. During the 19th and 20th centuries, these rodents were hunted down almost to extinction because of their ultra-soft fur. These r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/19/Relocating-The-Chinchillas-For-The-Gold/<p>Apple often announces that their new phones have better cameras than their previous ones. The announcement of the iPhone 12 is no different. In fact, the phone has the biggest advances compared to the pr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/19/What-s-Different-With-The-New-iPhone/<p>If you look at the photo real close, maybe you can find <a href="https://www.prevention.com/life/a34398342/snake-in-leaves-photo/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 20...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/19/Can-You-Find-The-Snake/<p>To be able to keep yourself awake for eleven days is nothing but amazing. To be able to keep yourself awake for eleven days while flying is even more amazing. A male bar-tailed godwit was just recorded d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/19/Flying-Nonstop-for-11-Days/This is Maki, an elderly ring-tailed lemur who lives at the San Francisco Zoo. He was stolen from his enclosure last week. Fortunately, a sharp-eyed 5-year old boy named James Trinh spotted him as he left his preschool,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/19/5-Year-Old-Boy-Gets-Lifetime-Zoo-Membership-after-Spotting-Stolen-Lemur/<p>Composting is good for the environment for many reasons. Just to name one, composting enriches the soil, and this could lead to healthy plant growth.</p><p>There are two problems when making...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/19/This-Device-Can-Turn-Food-Scraps-Into-Compost-In-2-Days/<p>Back in 2018, there was a viral video of a female orca in the Pacific Northwest. The orca, named Tahlequah, had just lost her calf, but she did not abandon the corpse. Instead, she kept on pushing it aro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/19/Can-Animals-Feel-Grief/<p>Water usually flows faster than honey. But when liquids are put in narrow tubes coated with liquid-repelling compounds, liquids with higher viscosity, flow faster.</p><blockquote>And that&rsq...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/19/When-Honey-Flows-Faster-Than-Water/<p>Bryant Hoban of O'Fallon, Missouri refers to his business model as "investment sandwiches." He buys fast food menu items right before they are dropped from a menu, freezes them, then sells them...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/19/Man-Offers-to-Sell-Discontinued-Taco-Bell-Tacos-for-200/<p>Today, if you smell like human excrement, people would tell you that you stink. But if you are in 18th century France, people in that era would remark that you are fashionable. The French art historian E...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/19/The-Weird-Perfume-Practice-In-18th-Century-France/An awful lot of people are far from blind, but have trouble reading text in certain circumstances, like the ubiquitous "small print." Others have low vision, meaning they aren't totally blind, but could use some help in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/19/Atkinson-Hyperlegible/If you want to prepare yourself for Halloween with plenty of creepy stories, there's no fiction that's scarier than the news. These stories happened in different years in different places all over, but together they will...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/10/19/16-Real-Stories-That-Sound-Like-Horror-Movies/
