(Photo: Henryk Borawski)The 51-mile Elblag Canal stretches across 6 lakes from the Polish cities of Elblag to Ostróda. One 6-mile section includes an elevation difference of 326 feet, which is more than convention...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/This-Canal-System-Runs-Boats-on-Train-Tracks/[http://youtu.be/Oe19d4QbzH0]YouTube LinkCineFix presents this video of facts about Joel and Ethan Coen's 1998 cult film The Big Lebowski. It features a few amusing stories that are as much fun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/Seven-Facts-You-May-Not-Know-About-iThe-Big-Lebowskii/They're hungry, hungry, but they're also eating healthy. Sandra Denneler made these happy hippopotami with frozen dinner roll dough. After baking, she brushed them with butter and added black eyed peas f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/Hippo-Bread-Rolls-Basking-in-Soup/Hello My Battle Toady! by Eman!He'd once gone by the name of Michigan J., when he was much smaller and inexplicably a frog, but now that he was a toad by the name of Zitsigan he was feeling much better. He didn't sing a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/Hello-My-Battle-Toady-Hes-One-High-Kickin-Hero/[http://youtu.be/q_vivC7c_1k] (YouTube link)There are very few subjects that will get people’s blood boiling on internet forums faster than tipping. The system is so weird that there are plenty of winners and loser...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/Why-Tipping-Should-Be-Banned/Cartoonist James Chapman (previously at Neatorama) presents a crash course in telephone etiquette across the globe with this comic “How to Answer the Phone in 10 Languages” for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/How-to-Answer-the-Phone-in-Ten-Different-Languages/(Photo: Isles of Scilly Police)The Isles of Scilly are a British archipelago off the coast of Cornwall. Police there recently investigated the burglary of a soccer equipment storage shed at a school. There, they found a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/Police-Puzzled-by-Fried-Egg-Left-at-Crime-Scene/[https://vimeo.com/116178496] (YouTube link)We showed you Hong King’s Museum of Visual Culture’s exhibit of neon signs, but America has its own Neon Museum. It’s only fitting that the museum of this par...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/The-Neon-Boneyard/People who find themselves acting strangely in opposition to their own hopes for the new year will understand this comic by Grant Snider of Incidental Comics. It takes an awful lot of New Year's You to f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/Brand-New-Year/Psychologist Arthur Aron set up an experiment in which two strangers, a man and a woman, met at the laboratory. They were instructed to discuss the answers to a set of 36 increasingly intimate questions, and then stare i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/How-to-Fall-in-Love/(Inside Ball t-shirt on sale at the NeatoShop)Last February, June, and August, I offered anime viewing recommendations, as well as invited readers to discuss anything they want about the wonderful world of anime. Let's d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/Anime-Recommendations-and-Open-Thread-4/[http://youtu.be/DassdizThkk] (YouTube link)This nature film follows the epic journey of a flock of the species Teeshirticus domesticus as they make their annual migration back to their natural habitat to nest....
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/T-shirt-Migration/Are you a sports fan? Then you will experience the full range of human emotional experience. No good will come from it for, as Doghouse Diaries explains, "Being a sports fan is like living in a universe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/Your-Enemy-Emotions/They've done it every year since 2010, and the 2014 edition is here! Artist Andrew Rae created this poster for SYZYGY illustrating twenty things that happened on the internet in 2014. How many can you recognize?20Things...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/20-Things-That-Happened-on-the-Internet-in-2014/The Power Is Yours by BambootaWe were foolish to think the Captain would stay with us forever, and for all the good he did on this planet he could never seem to get the balance right. He'd championed the use of good eco...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/The-Power-Is-Yours-Our-Captain-Has-Left-The-Planet/Say hello to 2015 and say hello to big savings over at the NeatoShop! Save up to 50% off novelty items (over 550+ SKUs!) and 20% off all T-shirts. Get free worldwide shipping (yes, that's right: worldwide) on ord...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/NeatoShop-Sale-50-Off-Novelty-Items-20-Off-All-T-Shirts/Twitter user @bonerman_inc (I know, I know) ordered an ice cream sundae from a local McDonald's restaurant but got something extra: souls of the damned, right there in the strawberry rivulets (or demon core, your...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/Souls-of-the-Damned-Found-in-McDonalds-Ice-Cream-Sundae/All aboard the beer train! These beer delivery men have got work and play all figured out. Take a look at how they combine both by sliding down a hilly street on a sled made out of beer crates: [http://youtu.be/eGC8FuHM...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/All-Aboard-the-Beer-Train/It would be easy to assume that these surreal captures are Photoshopped, yet they actually represent an unusual aspect of life in Japan, specifically in the city of Nara and on Miyajima Island. In these regions, wild dee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/Downtown-Deer/[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn-3pWJ0s4s](Video Link)A wooden sledge with a 90º angle at the front neatly parts light snow and clears a path for non-legged transport. Here's a similar device, though not an antiq...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/Check-Out-This-Old-Fashioned-Horse-Drawn-Snow-Plow/The following is a Whodunit by Hy Conrad. These mysteries are from The Little Giant® Book of Whodunits by Hy Conrad and Matt LaFleur. Can you solve the mystery before you read the solution? (I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/Whodunit-A-Winters-Tale/Twisted Sifter's recent photo of the day is actually from January 24 of 2014, taken after an avalanche in Glacier National Park in British Columbia, Canada. The Mount Revelstoke and Glacier National Parks Facebook p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/Amazing-Photo-Snow-Tracks/Crystal Head Vodka sells its liquors in glass bottles shaped like skulls. This is the same type of bottle featured in the highest traffic post ever published at Neatorama.Etsy seller Heirloom Claremont sells love...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/Skull-Bottle-Lamp/The following is an article from the book Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History Again.Start with nine very determined knights and a couple of sacred oaths. Add a jealous and vindictive k...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/The-Knights-Templar/Redditor shanbuscus offers this photo of his dad on top of HMAS Onslow, a diesel submarine operated by Australia's navy from 1968 to 1999. It's now on display and open to visitors at the Austral...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/Grilling-on-Top-of-a-Moving-Submarine/Wizard Of Oz- The Short Version by Mike JacobsenThere's an alternate version of Baum's beloved book locked away in some private collection somewhere that's much shorter than the original, one that tells a much darker ta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/Wizard-Of-Oz-The-Short-Version-Talk-About-A-Grim-Fairy-Tale/[http://youtu.be/TpgumObCkc0] (YouTube link)I’ve always thought that changing oil every 3,000 miles was just propaganda from oil companies, but I’d be a little nervous about going 7 to 10 thousand miles betwe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/Misconceptions-About-Driving/Today via social media, not only is it possible for an individual to make waves in the public image of a small business or large corporation, but an average person can — with one bad decision or incidence of l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/Ten-Nonfiction-Books-that-will-Spark-Conversation-in-2015/You can explore a city all day and night, but if you don’t go underground, there’s still more than meets the eye. Every large city has underground infrastructure, for transportation, communication, utilities,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/The-Forbidden-Places-Subterranean-Secrets-of-10-Big-Cities/On Wednesday, a Pennsylvania grand jury indicted a jail guard with forcing prisoners to play patty-cake and hug each other. Here's the gist of that story summarized by The Short News, a site that pr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/New-Stories-Summarized-with-LEGO-Minifigs/
