Archive for January 19th, 2024

Guinness World Record for the Longest Arm Hair on a Woman

Some are born great, some acheive greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. But Macie Davis-Southerland has greatness growing upon her.Specifically, it's growing on her left arm.In 2012, while in high...

https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/19/Guinness-World-Record-for-the-Longest-Arm-Hair-on-a-Woman/

You can't Fight City Hall ...or the Water Department

Jeff Raw runs a construction company in Atlanta. He bought a vacant lot with no utilities, and ordered a water meter in 2022. The meter was installed, but there was no water line to the property yet. A month later, Raw g...

https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/19/You-cant-Fight-City-hall-or-the-Water-Department/

Where People Spend the Most Time Looking At Their Screens

Some countries are more addicted to the internet than others. Smartick crunched the data and tell us that people in South Africa lead the world in screen time, spending an average of 9 hours and 38 minutes looking at the...

https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/19/Where-People-Spend-the-Most-Time-Looking-At-Their-Screens/

17-Year Old Turns Side Hustle into $410,000 Business

NBC News reports that Bella Lin of San Francisco was 12, she noticed that her pet guinea pigs kept disappearing from her backyard. She was unsatisfied with traditional "prison-barred" cages, so she decided to design and...

https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/19/17-Year-Old-Turns-Side-Hustle-into-410000-Business/

President McKinley's Autopsy Included Injecting Animals With His Bacteria

U.S. President William McKinley was shot in the abdomen at close range in 1901. He was rushed to a clinic where gynecological surgeon Matthew Mann operated on McKinley's wound. The president died eight days later from ne...

https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/19/President-McKinleys-Autopsy-Included-Injecting-Animals-With-His-Bacteria/

It's a Historical Myth That Immigrants' Names Were Changed at Ellis Island

In the 1974 film The Godfather Part II, young Vito Andolini from Corleone, Sicily is processed by immigration officials at Ellis Island. A clerk who doesn't speak Italian writes his name down as "Vito Corleone",...

https://www.neatorama.com/2024/01/19/Its-a-Historical-Myth-That-Immigrants-Names-Were-Changed-at-Ellis-Island/
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