If you recall the climactic scene in Star Wars: A New Hope, Luke Skywalker is negotiating a terrifying trench run on the Death Star, risking certain death with one false move. That's the feeling you'll get watch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/12/Ride-Along-on-an-Insane-Speedriding-Course/P.J. Nelson looks back on the mid-century crimes of Anjette Lyles, who poisoned her loved ones for the insurance money. https://t.co/RWRcF7y1fw— CrimeReads (@CrimeReads) January 11, 2025 Remember the other day w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/12/One-Too-Many-Dead-Relatives-May-Raise-Suspicions/The iconic home of chemistry teacher turned drug lord Walter White in the TV series Breaking Bad is on the market. The Albuquerque, New Mexico, house that was used for exterior shots in the show is seared into t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/12/Walter-Whites-House-is-For-Sale-for-4-Million/When I brought my first daughter home, we had a German shepherd. When she first saw him, her eyes widened bigger than I'd ever seen- she'd never seen an animal that big! But it didn't take long for them to become best fr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/11/Little-Girl-Grows-Up-With-Six-Huge-Dogs/Texas has a long history with chili, but the tradition of the chili cookoff was born only in 1967, when the reputation of Texas chili was on the line. Publicly, the spark of the war came when a New York author and humori...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/11/The-Scandal-That-Led-to-the-First-Chili-Cookoff/Artificial intelligence has come a long way in the past few years in generating images and video that, on casual viewing, can fool you into thinking it's a real representation of something that actually happened. This in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/11/Can-AI-Ever-Master-the-Art-of-Cinema/Japan is famous for its sophisticated vending machines where people can buy an incredible variety of items far beyond mere cold drinks. These include vending machines that sell chicken nuggets, diapers, and even other ve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/11/A-Vending-Machine-That-Sells-Crickets-To-Eat/Tim King does home remodeling in western Chicago. Recently, he worked on the home that belonged to his parents. While tearing down some drywall, he found a wrapped Christmas present. It had his name on it and dated back...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/10/Man-Finds-Lost-Christmas-Present-from-46-Years-Ago/There are thousands of stories of weird events that got their 15 minutes -or a year- of sensation then faded from public memory. Such is the case of a hand that fell from the sky in Bargaintown, New Jersey. In 1916, Henr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/10/Revisiting-the-Curious-Case-of-the-Flaming-Hand-of-Doom/We've posted quite a few stories about arsenic over the past twenty years here at Neatorama because there are so many things to say about the historic poison. However, you might not have been reading this blog that long,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/10/Inheritance-Powder-The-History-of-Arsenic/Embed from Getty ImagesA group of 226 travelers from the Midwest to California got caught in a terrible blizzard in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. They could go no further, and were snowbound. You think you know thi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/10/Trapped-by-a-Blizzard-in-the-Sierra-Nevada-Mountain-Range/Warning: these trailers are bloody and gory. As of January first, the character Popeye is public domain. Noting the "success" of the movie Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (it wasn't liked, but it made money), t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/09/Popeyes-Out-to-Kill-You-in-Two-January-Slasher-Films/In an early scene in the movie Sergeant York, we see farmer Alvin York shooting turkeys to explain how he was a crack shot. You should also learn about another farmer who rose to the occasion during wartime to b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/09/Historys-Deadliest-Sniper-Was-Only-Five-Feet-Tall/The 1993 movie Jurassic Park had state-of-the-art special effects and convinced us that dinosaurs could be brought back from extinction. But we've learned a lot about dinosaurs since 1993, and now those movie di...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/09/Correcting-the-Dinosaurs-of-iJurassic-Parki/In the early 18th century, the disciplines of chemistry and alchemy diverged, as science became more rigorous in its methods. James Price, born in 1752, became a distinguished chemist at a rather young age, but then dive...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/08/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-an-18th-century-Alchemist/The placenta is an organ grown by a mammal fetus that attaches to the mother's uterus. The fetus gets its nutrition through the placenta, but communication goes both ways. Certain placental cells control how much and whi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/08/Fetuses-Use-the-Genes-From-Daddy-to-Order-Nutrition-from-Mommy/In 1970, Rupert Holmes was asked for a way to get notice for an unknown band from Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. He said they should record a song that was guaranteed to get banned from radio, and he even wrote that song. T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/08/Remember-That-1970-Song-About-Cannibalism/Christian Scafidi and his girlfriend Emma were walking outside soon after a hurricane blew through. They spotted a tiny pink thing, and when it moved, they were surprised it was still alive. They didn't know what kind of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/07/The-Tale-of-a-Man-and-His-Tiny-Pink-Blob/Part of the charm of cuckoo clocks is their old world charm that inspires images of the Alpine cultures that created them. Etsy seller woodmess of Istanbul designs and builds modern interpretations of the classic design...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/07/A-Modern-Cuckoo-Clock/If you are looking for some stimulation, try the newest game from neal.fun called Stimulation Clicker. When you start, there's only one button. Click it, and click it again and again. The more you click, the more options...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/07/Stimulate-Yourself-with-the-Stimulation-Clicker/At a roller rink in Essex, UK, a few days ago, an unfortunate skater lost his boot. The boot continued to skate around in the galley area on its own, but eventually reconnected with the skater. How'd that happen? If you'...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/07/A-Loyal-But-Independent-Ghost-Boot/The Goodyear Blimp is still around, still hovering over major sporting events to provide an aerial view, long after other airships and zeppelins have gone the way of the dodo. The blimp debuted in 1925, and although the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/06/100-Years-of-the-Goodyear-Blimp/Redditor /u/mstacle has an impressive corpus of work, but I'm especially taken with this playful sculpture that looks like a melting ice cream treat. They tell us that the ice cream is made out of walnut and the stick is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/06/Wooden-Ice-Cream-Melts-Very-Slowly/In the 2000 movie Gladiator, Maximus (Russell Crowe) addresses the emperor Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), who is learning the gladiator's identity for the first time. You know the quote: "My name is Maximus Decimu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/06/The-Climactic-Speech-from-iGladiatori-is-Made-Perfect/Odds are you're not part of the 1% (in fact those odds are 99%), but it doesn't hurt to take a peek into how those folks might live. We get that opportunity every once in a while when a expensive property is listed. The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/06/How-Much-House-is-Too-Much-House/The most popular vegetable in the US is the potato. The majority of the country's potato crop goes into frozen food, most of which consists of french fries. McDonald's sells about nine million pounds of fries every day,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/05/What-Makes-McDonalds-Fries-Special/Sometimes comedy arises from a simple unfamiliarity with certain terms, and that goes double for projects that aren't as common as they once were. Redditor kiley_marie bought a bag of dried 16-bean soup. The instructions...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/05/When-You-Dont-Know-Beans-or-Bean-Language/In 1502, Leonardo da Vinci designed a self-supporting bridge for Ottoman Sultan Beyazid II of Istanbul, intended to span the Bosphorus. It consisted only of interlocking beams with no supports underneath, no fasteners, a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/05/How-da-Vincis-Interlocking-Bridge-Worked/Our earth is vast and filled with living things, including us. But you might not have a real grasp of the relative mass of all humans to all marine animals to livestock to plants. An interactive presentation called Biocu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/04/The-Relative-Mass-of-Living-Things-and-Manmade-Things/The genius of the best modern mashups in which characters cross over from disparate TV shows lies in their comedic value, sure, but it doesn't work without great editing skills. In this one, the YouTuber behind Alternati...
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