<p>J.K. Rowling's <em>Harry Potter</em> series is available in over 80 languages, including Latin and Gaelic. Two years ago, Yiddish enthusiasts, funded in part by a Swedish government program t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/06/How-Harry-Potter-Was-Translated-into-Yiddish/The Academy Awards Ceremony is this coming Sunday. To get us ready, Screen Junkies gives the mini-Honest Trailer treatment to all nine nominees for Best Picture, with a glimpse at the movie itself, the hype surrounding i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/06/An-Honest-Trailer-for-the-Oscars-2020/Many stamp collectors love finding stamps from small, faraway nations to add to their collections. But there are only so many nations on earth. A serious philatelist might wrinkle their nose at a stamp from Molossia, Bum...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/06/Collecting-Stamps-From-Countries-That-Dont-Really-Exist/<p>Multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games have had their roots in the late 90s and the early 2000s. One of the games that heavily influenced the development and the definition of the MOBA game genre i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/06/All-Your-Mods-Are-Belong-To-Us-Blizzard/The latest pictofacts article at Cracked gives us plenty to argue about. While most of the cooking tips are fairly good advice, some of them go on to explain the reasoning behind them, which vary from sensible to somethi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/06/Mistakes-Youre-Making-In-The-Kitchen/"He was way ahead of his time." Ashley Boone Jr. was the first black president of a major Hollywood studio and helped make George Lucas’ quirky space opera #StarWars a hit — and chances are you’ve nev...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/06/The-Marketing-Genius-Behind-Star-Wars/<p>How gross could you get?</p><p>An unidentified passenger was spotted drying a shoe through the plane’s overhead air vent. The video, which was submitted by a man named Dylan Miller, and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/06/Airline-Passenger-Dries-Shoe-On-Plane-s-Air-Vent/I would never be a good lip reader, because everything in this Bad Lip Reading compilation looks infinitely plausible to me, yet it's a string of pure nonsense. Good job!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/06/A-Bad-Lip-Reading-of-the-NFL-2020/<p>Just when you thought you knew all dog breeds, here comes another breed which was recently discovered. Introducing the platypus dog, which, well, looks more or less like a dog, except for its bill, which...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/06/A-New-Dog-Breed-In-Our-Midst/<p>A team of researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Georgia Tech attempted to trick Tesla’s autopilot system into seeing “phantom objects” and taking them as real images....
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/06/Tricking-Tesla-s-Autopilot-With-A-Projector/<p>This tiny owl was spotted lying in a ditch near Saxmundham, England. The passerby who spotted her assumed that she was injured, and when she didn’t fly away, it would seem that the assumption was c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/06/Why-Can-t-This-Owl-Fly/You know what they say: time flies when you're having fun. Forty years ago should be ancient times, but it was only 1980. That was the year Mount St. Helens erupted. The year you could buy Apple stock for $22 (or if you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/06/20-Things-That-Turn-40-in-2020/<p>Who knew rubber bands could be this elegant and stylish?</p><p>A graduating art student from Japan’s Tama Art University, Rie Sakamoto decided to use this lowly stationery item to creat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/06/Rubber-Band-Garments/<p>This is the rope chair. As its name implies, some parts of this chair are made of rope. These parts are the arms and the back rail of the chair. But why sit on this one? It is because this chair <a hr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/06/Check-Out-This-Rope-Chair/<p>Whenever a montage of a person working out is shown in a film, I usually hear rock music or upbeat music in the background. Why is this the case? It seems that science holds the enlightening, but unsurpr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/06/The-Music-That-May-Make-Exercise-Easier-and-More-Beneficial/Most likely once a member of a binary star system, Zeta Ophiuchi had a companion star. Unfortunately, its companion star was more massive, which meant that it was shorter lived. The companion star exploded as a supernova...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/06/The-Runaway-Star/<p>Cephalopods sometimes are <a href="https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/how-octopuses-and-squids-change-color" target="_blank">called the chameleons of the sea</a>...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/06/Mapping-The-Squid-s-Brain-To-Understand-Its-Ability-To-Quickly-Camouflage-Itself/
