Most of what we learned in school about World War II is from this side of the Iron Curtain. What happened in Eastern Bloc countries or Soviet Republics was mostly hidden until the Revolutions of 1989 and the fall of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/07/03/The-Ukrainians-Who-Hid-From-the-Nazis-in-Caves/Have you ever been startled when an electric car snuck up on you while you were walking? That happened to me about ten years ago. I was on a sidewalk, but I immediately thought of what would happen if a cat or a kid were...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/07/03/Designing-the-Fake-Noises-Electric-Cars-Make/When someone in this day and age tells you to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps," they almost always mean you should work harder to improve your lot. However, the original quote that gave us the phrase can be traced b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/07/03/Misunderstood-Quotes-That-Lost-Their-Original-Meaning/More than a decade ago, I still remember quite vividly when my parents and I traveled to Singapore, and we happened upon an old Singaporean man on the street selling ice cream. But it wasn't any old ice cream on cones. I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/07/03/Singapore-s-Ice-Cream-Sandwiches-Find-a-New-Home-in-Vietnam/Rummage through your medicine cabinet in the bathroom and there's a high chance that you'll see one or several of those orange prescription bottles tucked away in there. I only see these things shown on TV since most of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/07/03/Ever-Wondered-Why-Pill-Bottles-Are-Orange/
