There are over 7,100 known living languages being spoken in the world, and there's probably one single commonality in all of them: a universal word that binds all humanity and underscores that we are all often in the state of confusion. That word is "Huh?"

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in The Netherlands visited native speakers of 10 very different languages on five continents and recorded over 200 casual conversations that revealed that there are versions of "Huh?" in every language they sampled - and they sound remarkably similar.

"Huh?" has been dismissed by many, calling it as a frivolous "filler word" or a "conversational grunt" like the utterance "mm-hmm", but it may actually play a very important role in conversation - a role so important that a word like it evolved in probably all languages that human speak. Herbert Clark, a psychologist at Stanford University who studies language, told Amina Khan of The Los Angeles Times, that "Huh?" acts as a repair word. "You can't have a conversation without the ability to make repairs. It is a universal need, no matter what kind of conversation you have."

Now, let's see them study the much-maligned word "like" next!

I've never seen that Lorde girl in the flesh
I cut my teeth on pop music on Spotify
And I'm not proud of my email address
In the torn up web, no gmail envy

But every song's like:
Gold iPhones
Grey Wolf
Blogging in the bathroom
Foodstains
Snuggies
Blogging in the hotel room

We don't care, we're listening to this clown in our dreams.

Well, unless you've been living in a cave, you've probably heard 16-year-old wunderkind Ella Maria Lani Yelich-O'Connor, more famously known by her stage name Lorde, singing her smash hit song Royals.

There's no doubt that Lorde has a golden voice, but this clown ain't bad. And when we say clown, we don't mean it as a put down. We actually mean clown: meet Puddles the Clown, a seven-foot-tall sad clown that sure can sing. In this clip above, Puddles sings with Scott Bradlee of pop music band Postmodern Jukebox in the 1970s piano ballad cover version of Royals.

Previously on Neatorama: 7 Fantastic Covers of Daft Punk's Get Lucky (also featuring Postmodern Jukebox)

If you like that, check out the a capella Royals cover by Pentatonix:

Love teeth? Who doesn't?

Etsy seller ConcaveOblivion creates and sells denture-themed accessories that's perfect for your favorite dentist and everyone else who has a complete set of chompers (Hey, that's practically everyone! Sorry West Virginians! Joking! No biting emails, please)

You can get the Denture Bracelet above, or these beauties below that'll surely bring a toothy grin to your face. Behold, the Denture Comb and the Denture Compact Mirror:

Via Street Anatomy

YouTube Clip - via Uproxx

Remember the Russian Army Choir that sang Adele's Skyfall? Well, the Russian Police Choir ain't going to take that sitting down.

In what we can only hope to be a series of one-upmanship that will provide the Interweb with great choir performances, here's the Russian Police Choir singing Daft Punk's Get Lucky. Because, you know, in Soviet Russia the police choir (daft) punks you!

Some of the brass in the audience didn't seem too impressed, though some were singing along, so it's unclear whether the next performance of the Russian Police Choir will be somewhere in Siberia.

Still showering standing up? You're missing out on the total relaxation potential of a nice, hot shower.

The Horizontal Shower, brought to you by German manufacturer Dornbrach, is a series of six overhead showerheads and a reclining surface that lets you lie down and take a shower at the same time. The showerheads can be programmed to provide varying water temperature, intensity and flow.

Take a look at more amazing photos of the Horizontal Shower over at our new home design blog Homes & Hues: The Horizontal Shower Lets You Lie Down and Shower

Previously on Homes & Hues: The Hammock Bathtub | More Bathroom Design Ideas

Did you hear that they're making Army of Darkness 2? Well, maybe. Bruce Campbell himself told the world that he'd be coming back as the one-armed evil fightin' Ash Williams. Groovy!

Or maybe not, as Campbell later told the world that you shouldn't trust all these Internet B.S. spread by, none other than the man himself.

In any case, you can celebrate the good news/console yourself over the bad news with these Bruce Campbell's Soups. If you can't pick one up at your local S-Mart, you can always make your own Bruce Campbell's Condensed Soup, as created by Dave Maass and Chris Kalb over at Blastr (formerly Sci Fi Wire).

Visit Blastr to download the printable PDF - via reddit

You go, I go, we all go the bathroom, but can you do your business in THESE bathrooms?

Can you go if it feels like other people can look into the bathroom? Or that you're suspended in the air 15 stories up? How much do you gotta go anyhow?

Take a look at these 5 fearsome toilets, where the pressure you feel ain't just that of your bursting bladder:

1. Toilet with Glass Floor

Image: Carlos Diaz Corona

This unique bathroom in the PPDG Penthouse in Guadalajara, Mexico, is designed by Hernandez Silva Arquitectos. The space was intended for an elevator which was never installed - instead, the homeowner installed a powder room with a glass floor that lets you look straight down all 15 levels of the empty shaft.

View a gallery of photos of the house over at Homes & Hues. (Previously on Neatorama)

2. Men's Bathroom at the Sofitel Hotel, Queenstown, New Zealand

Photo provenance unknown - via Snopes

You've probably seen the viral photo above of a man using a urinal against a wall picture of women laughing at them, taking photographs and even, ahem, taking measurements, and you've probably thought that it's Photoshopped.

But the photo is real: that's the men's restroom in the 5-star Sofitel hotel in Queenstown, New Zealand. According to Snopes, hotel manager Mark Wilkinson said that the restroom was "just a way to put a little levity into the posh hotel."

3. The Glass Box Public Lavatory

Photo: Iwan Baan

When nature calls, why not go in a toilet that's, well, full of nature? The public toilet at the Itabu train station in Ichihara, Japan, is enclosed in a see-through glass box. It is surrounded by a lush garden and a 6-ft tall fence so you can go to the bathroom "outside" yet in complete privacy (well, at least until someone stands on a ladder outside the fence).

Find out more about the Itabu Station Glass Box Public Toilet over at Homes & Hues.

Procrastinate by Bamboota

Exterminate nakedness and satiate your need for cool T-shirt with this cool T-shirt design by Bamboota. But whatever you do, don't, y'know, procrastinate!

Check out Bamboota's official Tumblr page, then visit her NeatoShop catalog for more neat T-shirt designs.

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Captain Barbecue by kgullholmen

Visit kgullholmen's official Facebook page, then head on over to his NeatoShop catalog for more awesome designs. Your purchase helps support indie artists as well as this blog, so thank you in advance for your support!

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It's 2013. Where's my jet pack? Oh yeah, that's right, Yves Rossy has it.

Rossy, a Swiss fighter pilot who went on to build an actual jetpack is aptly known by his nickname "Jetman." His latest flight was around Mount Fuji in Japan. "You feel that you have pressure everywhere, and that's the magic moment. Because full thrust like that, you are aerodynamic and it's like a big hand on your back and yes! It holds. And you fly," Rossy said to ITN News.

Rossy's jetpack flew a total of 9 times around Mount Fuji, with an average speed of 200 km per hour (124 mph).

Look around any toy store and you'll see hundreds of Disney characters sold as action figures and stuffed toys, so it's quaint to think that there was actually a time when Disney had trouble selling stuff. But there was.

Back in 2000, Disney's consumer products division was overstretched and underfocused, according to Peggy Orenstein in her 2006 New York Times article "What's Wrong with Cinderella?"

Disney had mistakenly triggered price wars by granting multiple licenses for their core characters, and sales were dropping as much as 30 percent a year. Adding to their problem was the 1998 "A Bug's Life" movie had trouble translating to merchandising opportunities. "What child want[ed] to snuggle up with an ant?," wrote Orenstein.

A new Disney executive named Andy Mooney, who came over from Nike, was checking out his first "Disney on Ice" show in Phoenix, when he came to a solution that would save Disney from its woes.

"Standing in line in the arena, I was surrounded by little girls dressed head to toe as princesses," Mooney told Orenstein, "They weren't even Disney products. They were generic princess products they'd appended to a Halloween costume. And the light bulb went off. Clearly there was latent demand here. So the next morning I said to my team, 'O.K., let's establish standards and a color palette and talk to licensees and get as much product out there as we possibly can that allows these girls to do what they're doing anyway: projecting themselves into the characters from the classic movies.'"

Mooney and his team picked Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Mulan, and Pocahontas to be in the new Disney Princess line. It was the first time that Disney marketed characters separately from a movie release, and it was also the first time that different characters from different movies were lumped together.

Orenstein wrote that to "ensure the sanctity of what Mooney called their individual 'mythologies,' the princesses never make eye contact when they're grouped: each stare[d] off in a slightly different direction as if unaware of the others' presence."

What Mooney did worked: As of 2006, there were 25,000 Disney Princess items. Sales shot up from $300 million in 2001 to over $3 billion globally. And to this day, no Disney princess has ever looked at one other's eyes when they're displayed together as a group.

When designer Till Könneker moved into his unfurnished studio apartment, he didn't go and buy a bed and a dresser like the rest of us. No, sir! He decided to take this opportunity to design an all-in-one bed, desk, and storage solution.

Collaborating with Rimo Zimmerli of Holzlabor, Könneker created Living Cube - a custom system that lets watch TV, store his clothes, shoes and other worldly possessions, and let him sleep, too!

Take a look at more photos of the Living Cube, featured over at our new home design blog Homes & Hues.

Back in this 2008 post on Neatorama, 5 Really Weird Things About Water, we told you that hot water freezes faster than cold water.

That strange effect was first observed in 1963 by a Tanzanian high school student named Erasto B. Mpemba, who was freezing hot ice cream mix in a cooking class when he noticed that hot mix froze faster than a cold one. No scientist could explain the strange behavior, dubbed "the Mpemba effect" ... until now.

Xi Zhang of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and colleagues discovered the scientific basis of the Mpemba effect: it's because of all the hydrogen bonds that's goin' on in water.

Medium explains it in plain English for non-physicists:

Xi and co say hydrogen bonds also explain the Mpemba effect. Their key idea is that hydrogen bonds bring water molecules into close contact and when this happens the natural repulsion between the molecules causes the covalent O-H bonds to stretch and store energy.

But as the liquid warms up, it forces the hydrogen bonds to stretch and the water molecules sit further apart. This allows the covalent molecules to shrink again and give up their energy. The important point is that this process in which the covalent bonds give up energy is equivalent to cooling.

In fact, the effect is additional to the conventional process of cooling. So warm water ought to cool faster than cold water, they say. And that’s exactly what is observed in the Mpemba effect.

YouTube Link - via Tastefully Offensive

You know what Stan Lee - the legendary comic book writer and co-creator of Spider-Man, Iron, Man, Thor and other superheroes - hates? Scientifically inaccurate depictions of a superhero's ability to fly.

Take, Superman, Stan ranted. How in the world does Superman fly? "The man has no visible means of propulsion. Whenever Superman flies he gets into a pose like this ... and he's off. There's no engine, there's no jet, there's nothing. He's just flying" he said.

On the other hand, there's Thor. Stan explained how he created a scientifically accurate way for Thor to fly. It involved a hammer and a leather thong. Watch the clip to find out how.

"We've got to rent a dumpster to get rid of these broken pieces of concrete."

"OK. How much is a dumpster?"

"A couple of hundred bucks, probably"

"What? We ain't got that kind of money. There's got to be a better way."

"Like what?"

"How about if we give it away?"

"Who'd take broken pieces of concrete?"

"Well, dummy, you don't tell them that. See, it's all in the marketing!"

Hire that man for your next ad campaign! You've got to admit that's pretty clever. Best of all, after completing the puzzle, you get a whole new concrete patio!