We were charmed by the 1982 Steven Spielberg movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. It's such a universally-loved film that Screen Junkies had a bit of a problem coming up with enough snarky material for an Honest Tr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/07/28/An-Honest-Trailer-for-ET-the-Extra-Terrestrial/<p>Help him scratch his ear, quick! Watch this short video posted by Twitter user <a href="https://twitter.com/minoovo" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">@...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/07/28/He-Can-t-Scratch-His-Ear/The image above is of a painting called Tree Roots. Vincent van Gogh was working on it on July 27, 1890. That evening he shot himself in the chest, and he died the next day. The exact location of the real-life t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/07/28/Setting-for-Van-Goghs-Final-Painting-Found/A list of scary but not gory horror movies will draw the attention of 1. people who like the thrill of horror, but become ill at the sight of blood and gore, 2. those of us who decry the cheap tactics of blood-and-guts m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/07/28/10-Mostly-Bloodless-Horror-Movies-for-When-You-Wanna-Be-Scared-Not-Unconscious/<p>The Nintendo data leak may have just happened recently, but people combing through the leaked data already have found juicy stuff for gamers all over the world, like the tool that video game programmer D...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/07/28/What-People-Have-Discovered-From-The-Nintendo-Gigaleak/<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Jaden ‘Wolfiez’ Ashman from Essex ranked in the Fortnite World Cup last 2019. The fifteen-year old player was the youngest player to win a m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/07/28/What-Happened-To-The-Fortnite-Teenage-Millionaire/<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeGUqJFEuNCiECPrHMup3tg" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Yoora Jung</a><span style="color: rgb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/07/28/I-Sent-A-Quiz-To-Every-Boy-I-Had-A-Crush-On/<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Auntie Anne’s Pretzels is famous for their delicious pretzels (which are honestly my favorite snack). But did you know that the founder of the sto...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/07/28/The-Origin-Story-Of-Auntie-Anne-s/Regarding the title, one could argue that no one in Britain knows what an inch is now, because they use meters and centimeters. But that's not what this is about. Any measurement must have standards. While measu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/07/28/For-21-Years-No-One-In-Britain-Knew-How-Long-An-Inch-Was/During the 1980s, author and map enthusiast Hans Harlén calculated the center of Stockholm. For decades, nobody paid attention to his project.Fast forward to 2012. Harlén’s project came to the attenti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/07/28/This-Is-Stockholm-City-s-Center-Literally/Are you a healthy person who’s afraid of overeating on certain occasions, such as Thanksgiving and birthdays? If yes, then let me tell you this: you don’t need to be afraid of overeating occasionally. A recen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/07/28/Occasional-Binge-Eating-Is-Okay/Because data is now the world’s most valuable resource, it is not surprising that companies want their hands on every kind of data that they can get. It seems that car companies are no longer just interested in mak...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/07/28/When-Car-Companies-Want-To-Monitor-Your-Every-Movement/<p>They say that life begins at 40, and as I grow older I have come to realize how truthful this statement is. People who are now in their forties have enough wisdom and the necessary life skills to survive...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/07/28/People-In-Their-Forties-Give-Life-Lessons-To-Young-People/<p>It's one thing to modify DNA to reflect different genetic traits. It's quite another to use DNA as a data storage device. But that's what scientists at the University of Texas have manged to do. They enc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/07/28/Scientists-Encode-i-The-Wizard-of-Oz-i-on-DNA-Strands/<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Seeing these photos can make you feel bad for the person involved, or may just make you feel slightly better on a crappy day. The people in these photos...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/07/28/Here-Are-Photos-With-The-Big-Yikes-Energy/Embed from Getty ImagesIn the fall of 1940, the German army rounded up Jewish people in Warsaw, Poland, and restricted them to a scant 1.3 square mile area. This become known as the Warsaw Ghetto, where 400,000 people...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/07/28/How-a-Public-Health-Campaign-in-the-Warsaw-Ghetto-Stemmed-the-Spread-of-Typhus/<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Why withdraw hundreds of dollars to pay for a gadget when you can buy it with a swipe of your credit card? With this day and age, more people are inclin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/07/28/What-s-Your-Most-Expensive-Cash-Purchase/When this kid tried to strike a golf ball for the first time, he just made it move a few centimeters away from its original position. But on his second strike, however, something amazing happened — an event that co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/07/28/A-Stroke-of-Luck/Ghost of Tsushima is a video game released on the PS4 on July 17. The game is set in late 13th-century Japan and revolves around a man named Jin Sakai, a samurai who lives on Tsushima Island. The game is highly praised f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/07/28/Reviewing-The-Combat-In-Ghost-of-Tsushima/Ramesses II of Egypt left many architectural wonders behind, including two temples built into rock cliffs near the village of Abu Simbel. The problem was that these 3,300-year-old Egyptian treasures lay in what would bec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/07/28/The-Relocation-of-the-Abu-Simbel-Temples/Get up close and detailed with a kernel of popcorn as it heats up. When the moisture inside turns to steam, the pressure it exerts causes the tough shell to violently burst open, so that the starch inside can freely expa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/07/28/Popcorn-in-Extreme-Slow-Motion/We've often said that the real winners of the California Gold Rush were not the gold prospectors, but those who sold goods and services to the prospectors and miners. That was certainly the case for 14-year-old James Fol...
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