Embed from Getty ImagesSo many sports evolved gradually from one form to another, but trampoline -both the apparatus and the sport- are the product of one man's imagination. That should be George Nissan, who was inspir...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/06/How-the-Trampoline-Came-to-Be/In the middle of Rome, there is a stone stairway leading from the Arx of Capitoline Hill down to the Roman Forum. These are called Scalae Gemoniae, and they were the site of many executions during the height of the Roman...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/06/The-Stairs-of-Death/<p>Although I prefer a good Port Salut, the judges at the World Cheese Contest in Wisconsin gave the top prize to a Swiss gruyere. The <a href="https://apnews.com/1ad99c2e40b82736171f037c9244fd8c&qu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/06/Swiss-Gruyere-Named-the-World-s-Best-Cheese/<p>According to legend, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Patrick" target="_blank">Saint Patrick</a> drove all of the snakes out of Ireland. Nonetheless, on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/06/Ireland-Reports-Its-First-Venomous-Snakebite/<p>Sure, some people will say that this wondrous event was caused by plumbing problems. But I prefer to attribute it to divine intervention. <a href="https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/03/05/Spill-ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/06/Miracle-Causes-Water-Taps-in-Italian-Village-to-Emit-Wine-Instead-of-Water/<p>When everyone was busy watching the sea cucumbers and urchins on the old time-lapse photos of the seafloor from cameras 2.5 miles below the ocean’s surface, a woman named Amanda Khan was, apparentl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/06/This-Deep-Sea-Sponge-Just-Sneezed/<p>The brain is the command center of the human body. It is what makes us capable of breathing and controlling our limbs. It is also what makes our organs function properly. More than these things, our brai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/06/Amazing-Facts-About-The-Brain/<p>For over a month, the Hacksmith team created their own version of Tesla’s Cybertruck, but with a twist: it was half the size of the original. It cost them “a lot of time, blood, sweat, and te...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/06/A-Ford-F-150-vs-A-Half-Scale-Cybertruck-Who-Wins/<p>In 1989, Timothy Sullivan had an ear infection, and he was urged to take antibiotics. After popping a giant tablet of amoxicillin one summer afternoon, he jumped up to celebrate “after confirming t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/06/Why-Are-We-Asked-To-Take-Antibiotics-For-Two-Weeks/<p>With each turn, several hundred million years pass. That’s how slow this slow dance of these two galaxies, <a href="https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200304.html" target="_blank"&...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/06/A-Very-Slow-Slow-Dance/<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Plastic waste has been one of the most pressing concerns in the past years. Despite all the efforts to save the environment, sometimes it feels like we'...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/06/These-Tiny-Plastic-Eating-Caterpillars-May-Be-The-Next-Environmental-Heroes/The game Foldit was developed years ago and launched to the public in 2008. The Game Science department and the Biochemistry department at the University of Washington combined forces to develop a video game that would c...
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