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Let's make this Sale extra fun with a T-shirt giveaway! Here's how to enter:

1. Visit the NeatoShop and take a look around to find your favorite design. May we suggest the Science T-Shirts, Funny T-shirts, and Video Game T-Shirts categories?

2. In the comment below, tell us your favorite artwork and the artist who designed it.

3. That's it! There's no step 3.

One entry per person. Multiple entries will be disqualified. We'll pick three winners at random. The winner will be notified through our comment system below, so be sure to use a valid email address. Good luck, everyone!

Update 11/15/15: Congratulations to the winners Nick S., Tapisbis, and Jarod L.! The winners have been contacted via Neatorama's private message system. Thank you for playing, everyone!

The world's first documented high five occurred between Dusty Baker and Glenn Burke of the Los Angeles Dodgers on October 2, 1977 at the Dodger Stadium

High five!

Did you ever wonder why we started giving high fives to each other and how it began in sports but made its way to become a symbol of gay pride and identification?

Our pal Today I Found Out explored the life of Glenn Burke, the first openly gay Major League Baseball player, who was credited for "inventing" and popularizing high five in 1977. Watch it on YouTube:

Today's the last day of NeatoShop's Free Worldwide Shipping Sale (that's right: worldwide), so let's have a bit of fun with a neat giveaway. Win a FREE T-shirt of your choice simply by asking for it.

Enter the giveaway here: NeatoShop's Fall Sale Giveaway

Update 10/12/15: Giveaway is now closed! Thank you for entering, everyone!

Today's the last day of NeatoShop's Free Worldwide Shipping Sale (yes, worldwide), so let's have a bit of fun: Take a look at our neat selection of shirts and you can win a FREE T-shirt!

Here's how to enter this giveaway:

1. Visit the NeatoShop and take a look around to find your favorite design. May we suggest the Funny T-Shirts, Science T-Shirts, Sci-Fi T-Shirts and Video Game T-Shirts categories?

2. In the comment below, tell us your favorite artwork and the artist who designed it.

3. That's it! There's no step 3.

One entry per person. Multiple entries will be disqualified. We'll pick three winners at random. The winner will be notified through our comment system below, so be sure to use a valid email address. Good luck, everyone!

Update 10/29/15: The winners have been chosen! Congrats to Zeen, Ragalie O., and Andres B.

If you think sitcoms from the 90s are scary, you'd be right in this case: WorldWideInterweb has recut the TV sitcom Friends into a two minute trailer for a horror movie "Dead Friends."

Classic moments from the series -- including Phoebe's "My eyes! My beautiful eyes!" and the one where Monica wears a Thanksgiving turkey on her head -- get put through a very Hitchcockian, black-and-white lens with the help of a few jump scares and a moody score.

Remember, Friends will be there for you, dead or alive.

A photo posted by Ben Carpenter (@bloody_ben) on Aug 5, 2015 at 10:10am PDT

Ben Carpenter, an engineering student and avid cosplayer, uses a wheelchair because of spinal muscular atrophy. But Ben didn't let his wheelchair prevent him from creating the most epic "Mad Max" cosplay ever: in fact, he used the wheelchair as part of the costume!

Check out Ben's costume from Dragoncon and Tampa Bay Comic Con:

A photo posted by Ben Carpenter (@bloody_ben) on May 14, 2015 at 3:21pm PDT

A photo posted by Ben Carpenter (@bloody_ben) on Aug 5, 2015 at 10:10am PDT

A photo posted by Ben Carpenter (@bloody_ben) on Aug 2, 2015 at 8:42am PDT

Fame sure is fickle. One day you're a star on the big screen, the next you're selling bananas on the streets of Beijing.

Users of Weibo, a Chinese microblogging site, shared this photo of two adorable Minions selling bananas and getting hassled by urban management officers.

But don't feel sorry for the lovable guys, Shanghaiist explains how all is just a ploy to get you to watch the release of the latest Despicable Me movie in China.

Have you ever seen a crocodile jump straight out of the water? Can they jump out of the water with those stubby lil' legs?

National Geographic photographer Trevor Frost has got the answer ...

Crocodiles have incredibly strong tails. Their tails propel them in the water like torpedoes from a submarine. In fact, as you see here, their tails are so strong that they can propel their entire body out of the water.

... complete with videographic proof:

A video posted by Trevor Frost (@tbfrost) on Sep 11, 2015 at 5:58am PDT

There's only one appropriate response to this.

I fixed my fridge by watching a howto video online, but that's nothing compared to what Asmelash Zerefu of Ethiopia did: He built an airplane by watching YouTube videos.

Zerefu has always wanted to be a pilot, but in 2001, he was turned down from the Ethiopian Airlines Aviation Academy because he was about half an inch too short. But that crushing setback didn't deter him: Zerefu decided to build himself a plane from scratch.

Jonathan Wells of The Telegraph has the story:

... following ten years of planning, the day arrived that Zerefu had to begin construction on Ethiopia’s first ever home-built aircraft. After incorporating the design of the Clark-Y Airfoil Wing into his own unique plans, and tailoring other existing plane parts, Zerefu began the long and arduous task of sourcing the components and materials he would need to construct his very own magnificent flying machine.

"I collected from garages and workshops, and Merkato - which is Africa's largest market - in Addis Ababa. I used first and second-hand materials to build my aircraft.”

Photo: Dina Litovsky/NY Times

If a rolling duffel is just not hipster enough for you, it's time to go full hobo and get yourself an bindle. But don't just grab any old stick and rag, get yourself a "locally-grown, naturally-fallen artisanal bindle bags" from Josiah and Dusty, the Bindle Bros of (you guessed it) Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

"We're trying to build adventures, one stick, one bindle at a time," Dusty said to the New York Times. "You can fit any physical objects in a bindle," added Josiah,"but bindles are really meant for your hopes and your dreams."

These bindles ain't cheap: a basic one goes for $99, and fancy ones can cost up to $350. "There's a lot of R and D that goes into constructing one of these gems," Josiah defended his handmade creation, "You can't just tie a bandanna to the end of a stick." And business is booming:

But before you rage against the inanity of the idea of an artisanal bindle (come on, you're kicking yourself because you didn't think of it first), read the full story behind the Bindle Bros over at the New York Times.

I wonder if you can carry artisanal firewood in one of those bindles.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Daredevil Primož Ravnik rode his bicycle down the nearly vertical wall of a Slovenian dam and captured the nearly 200 feet (60m) plunge on his GoPro camera. The stunt was part of a contest by GoPro and biking website Pinkbike to find the most outrageous stunt, with a top prize of $20,000.

If that's not extreme enough for you, here's a compilation cut of more death defying stunts from Pinkbike:

We're gonna need a bigger pencil!

Polish illustrator Bartosz Kosowski of Blackbird Illustration spent almost a year creating this phenomenal poster of the 1975 Jaws movie by Steven Spielberg. Kosowski used 202 simple lines to recreate the iconic image of the shark's dorsal fin poking out of the surface of the water.

Betcha start humming the movie's theme song when you saw this! Dun dun dun dun dun dun ...

Will text for nonfat venti soy chai latte with half shot of espresso no foam! Our pal Dan Piraro of Bizarro Comic envisioned the modern panhandler rattling his artisanal fair trade ceramic coffee mug whilst waiting for a kind soul's help to get the morning's coffee.

Have you seen the prices at your favorite coffee shop lately? The only way to afford a cuppa is to beg for one!

Sarah Chrisman riding her high-wheel tricycle (Photo: Ester Hyo Gyung Choi)

The Victorian era certainly looks glamorous and interesting on the silver screen, but how would you like to live like people did back then? Author Sarah A. Chrisman and her husband Gabriel did just that, and explained it all in this illuminating article over at Vox:

Every morning I wind the mechanical clock in our parlor.  Each day I write in my diary with an antique fountain pen that I fill with liquid ink using an eyedropper.  My inkwell and the blotter I use to dry the ink on each page before I turn it are antiques from the 1890s; I buy my ink from a company founded in 1670. My sealing wax for personal letters comes from the same company, and my letter opener was made sometime in the late Victorian era from a taxidermied deer foot.

There are no modern lightbulbs in our house.  When Gabriel and I have company we use early electric lightbulbs, based on the first patents of Tesla and Edison. When it's just the two of us, we use oil lamps. When we started using period illumination every day, we were amazed by how much brighter the light is from antique oil lamps than from modern reproductions.

Read the rest over at Vox.

See previously: I'm Living Like I'm In the Victorian Era

The Netherlands sees your ho-hum flower parade and raises you this: a Van Gogh-inspired flower parade as this year's Corso Zundert (previously on Neatorama).

Every year, the town of Zundert in southern Netherlands holds an over-the-top flower parade, with floats after floats covered in millions of dahlias. This year's theme celebrates the town's most famous son, Vincent van Gogh, who was born there in 1853.

Take a look at the fantastic and surreal floats of Corso Zundert, via the festival's official Instagram and website: