To celebrate the company's 10th anniversary Armenia's Grand Candy has produced a 10 inch thick chocolate bar weighing in at 9,720 pounds and measuring a colossal 18.4 feet by 9 feet, setting a new world record. Guinness...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/09/15/worlds-largest-chocolate-bar/A poll of 238 presidential experts at the Siena Research Institute has ranked the USA's presidents. This is the fifth time they have published such a list; the last one was in 2002. For the first time, Franklin Delano Ro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/02/fdr-is-top-president/Archaeology magazine has eight stories of archaeological hoaxes that made the news throughout history, with bonus links to their earlier articles about hoaxes. The reasons for perpetrating hoaxes and forgeries range as...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/24/archaeologys-hoaxes-fakes-and-strange-sites/Remember the Two Musicians One Guitar post we had on Neatorama recently? Well, (as the clip said) you ain't seen nothin' yet. Here's The Dubliners performing The Octopus Jig. Just who is playing what here?!Hit play or go...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/06/whos-playing-what-the-octopus-jig-by-the-dubliners/Ok here's something I've never seen before that dates back to pre-World War II. This contraption consists of a tractor and some form of corkscrew drive system. After a bit of research, it appears that this invention...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/skrew-doo/Even before the Gulf War and the Iraq War... ...hammad and his followers fled Mecca for Medina in 622 CE.Over the next eight years, the Muslims periodi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/27/3-early-middle-east-conflicts/Fredric J. Baur, designer of the Pringles potato crisps container, was so proud of his accomplishment that he wanted to be buried in it! Dr. Fredric J. Baur was so proud of having designed the container for Pringles pot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/02/inventor-buried-in-pringles-can/Photo: Stephen Osman / LA TimesLos Angeles Times has an interesting article by Steve Chawkins about a "live and let live" parking program in Santa Barbara, California, for those who choose to live in their cars...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/01/nomadic-by-nature-santa-barbaras-parking-program-for-those-who-live-in-their-cars/Wendy McClure of Candyboots has a neat collection of diet recipe cards from the 1970s, featuring food like chilled celery log and frankfurther spectacular. Yum! Link - Thanks Jennifer!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/10/diet-recipe-cards-from-the-1970s/Kappa is a mythical Japanese creature, known for its malicious tendencies:Their pranks range from the relatively innocent, such as loudly passing gas or looking up women's kimonos, to the more troublesome, such as steali...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/27/edo-period-drawing-of-kappa-a-mythical-creature-in-japan/
