Embed from Getty ImagesIf someone were to ask to you to guess the most expensive substance on earth, you would probably reflexively answer "printer ink." Yeah, it's quite pricy, but nothing compared to some substances...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/09/The-Most-Expensive-Substances-on-Earth/Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! That line from The Wizard of Oz has accompanied the viral images of a lion, tiger, and bear living together for more than 20 years. The story is true. While it may have started...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/09/The-Story-Behind-the-Famous-BLT-Trio/Ernest Hemingway, a notoriously manly man, for better or worse, was given a gift of a polydactyl kitten by a sea captain. Polydactyl cats, those which have more than the regulation number of toes, were said to be good lu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/09/The-Hemingway-Cats-of-Key-West/The appropriately named shop Irregular Choice provides unusual shoes and accessories for people that want to stand out in a crowd. One of its dominant themes is the Monopoly board game. Perhaps the flashiest of all of it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/09/Collect-200-if-You-Pass-in-These-Monopoly-Shoes/Kawasaki is known for their motorcycles and ATVs, and now they've surprised the world with a robotic walking vehicle you can ride like a motorcycle. This is CORLEO, a quadruped robot vehicle that runs on a hydrogen fuel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/08/Kawasaki-Brings-Us-a-Rideable-Robot/A company called Colossal Biosciences has been working on "de-extinction" with projects set up to bring back extinct species such as the dodo, woolly mammoths, and Tasmanian tigers. Their first announced success, however...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/08/Dire-Wolves-De-Extinction-or-Hybrid-Grey-Wolves/This is short and sweet and might put a smile on your face or even make you laugh. Artist Rudy Willingham, who finds creative ways to make street art (previously at Neatorama), has taken a simple pun and made it work in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/08/A-Stop-Motion-Animated-Sequence-Using-the-Medium-of-Toast/Barry Enderwick makes a sandwich every day on video for his YouTube and other social media platforms under the name Sandwiches of History. We've featured him here before. Since he started his daily sandwich project, Ende...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/07/Historys-Best-and-Worst-Sandwiches/Probably no tomb has been studied more than King Tutankhamen's, and studies show he was a young king who was fabulously wealthy but suffered from disabilities and early death due to royal inbreeding. However, the many ro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/07/The-Lowdown-on-King-Tuts-Space-Dagger/You'd know an elephant when you see one, wouldn't you? Today we have African elephants and Asian elephants, and we are all familiar with the extinct mammoths and mastodons. But there were once many more species of the or...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/07/Other-Elephants-of-the-Distant-Past/Dubois & Fils of Le Locle, Switzerland crafted an automaton watch around the year 1810.pic.twitter.com/lLSnJlUMwE— 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐤 𝐓𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 (@Steampunk_T)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/07/Ornate-Watch-and-Automaton-Dates-Back-to-1810/STS 3D is a robotics and software design firm that, as a modern Prometheus, is advancing everyday technologies beyond the finite imaginations of other product designers. Its crew most recently teamed up with YouTuber Plu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/07/Supercharged-Dishwasher-Cleans-Dishes-Extremely-Quickly/Do you remember ice tennis? It's tennis placed on skates on an ice rink. Ice football is similar in that it is American football* except played on an ice rink. No, the players aren't wearing skates. They're wearing shoes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/07/The-Sport-of-Ice-Football/Last December we showed you the teaser for James Gunn's Superman, which will open in theaters on July 11. We were quite delighted to see that this Superman film shows the heroics of Krypto the Superdog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/06/Krypto-is-Superdog-But-Hes-Still-a-Dog/Does your country have more immigrants or emigrants? Immigrants are people who move in from another nation, while emigrants are people born in a country and then move out. Brilliant Maps crunched the numbers for all the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/06/The-Countries-That-People-Are-Moving-Into-and-Out-Of/Churches are built as an act of faith and worship, but some builders also know the value of novelty. If you can get people to come and visit out of curiosity, they may stay for worship. That's not the only reason some ch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/06/Seven-of-the-Worlds-Most-Unusual-Churches/Starting in the 1960s, Richard Scarry set a standard for the adult world in his Busytown books. These manuals taught children what to expect when they became independent, working adults in the world outside of their home...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/06/Richard-Scarrys-Cheese-Car-as-a-Toy/It shouldn't surprise us that records of money and court cases are so often prioritized over records of human lives, which is the case of Eulalie Mandeville. No documented records of her life exist outside of the three-y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/05/An-Inheritance-Fight-Told-Through-Court-Records/The Soviet Union had, on a small scale, a domestic production of video and arcade games. Tetris, is, of course, the most famous Soviet video game, if not the most successful cultural export of the Soviet Union. Many of t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/05/This-Soviet-Arcade-Game-Simulated-Pulling-up-Turnips/You've heard the phrase "don't think about an elephant." It is impossible to achieve, because the word elephant implants that concept in our heads, despite the word "don't" that we understand. Understanding that negative...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/05/Negation-A-Difficult-Language-Concept-We-All-Understand/Many British castles earn their maintenance costs by flaunting their ancient history. If a king once lived there, or a famous battle took place there, the more tourists that a castle will draw, even if it is in ruins. Ho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/04/The-Legacy-of-the-Monty-Python-Castle/Passover, or Pesach, is April 12 through the 20th this year. The Jewish a cappella group Six13 (previously at Neatorama) has released their annual Passover pop parody song, and this one is set to the tune of "Ap...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/04/Put-a-Little-K-Pop-in-Your-Passover/Would you eat escargot-flavored ice cream? It might be a good way to prepare for your stay in Paris.The New York Post reports that EasyJet, a British discount airline, is offering snacks befitting the destinatio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/03/Airline-Offers-Snails-and-Garlic-Ice-Cream-to-Paris-Bound-Passengers/It's time to class up this shindig. Yes, a champagne fountain is nice, but it's also expensive and does not defeat the ennui of the modern party scene. But a pickle fountain will make sure that people talk about your par...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/03/Pickle-Fountains-Are-the-Ultimate-Party-Food-Presentation/Hello, Antarctica.Unlike previously anticipated, from 460 km above, it is only pure white, no human activity is visible. pic.twitter.com/i7JawFYzW2— Chun (@satofishi) April 2, 2025 Chung Yang, a billionaire inve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/03/For-the-First-Time-Humans-Have-Viewed-Antarctica-from-Space/In their What If? video series (previously at Neatorama), Randall Munroe of XKCD and Henry Reich of MinutePhysics look into wild theoretical questions from fans, no matter how stupid they are. Now, we know that the earth...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/03/The-Earth-If-It-Were-Rotated-90/Which of Hayao Miyazaki's films is depicted above? Yes, it's Spirited Away!The palette of a film's most dominant colors can help us recognize it, sometimes instantly. NYC-based illustrator and graphic designer H...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/31/Can-You-Identify-This-Ghibli-Film-by-Its-Color-Palette/With all the medicines, remedies, and supplements available to cure what ails ya, the name Dr. Buckland’s Scotch Oats Essence stands out as being particularly benign and natural. What could be more wholesome for yo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/30/Dr-Bucklands-Scotch-Oats-Essence-Was-Not-What-It-Seemed/It is a truth universally acknowledged that men, as a broad generalization, enjoy gazing upon the bosoms of fair maidens. Why is this so? One popular belief is that some cultures sexualize human breasts and thus impose l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/30/Psychologists-Wonder-Why-Men-Like-Looking-at-Breasts/The Grand Prize winner in the 22nd annual Smithsonian Photography Contest shows us a scene from a horror film, in which a giant praying mantis has won a battle against another of its species, having bitten its head off....
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/03/30/The-Winners-of-the-Smithsonians-Annual-Photography-Competition/
