The dodo was a flightless bird native to Mauritius, and was first described in 1598. It's been said that the dodo was so friendly that it would walk right up to people, making it easy to kill. These birds didn't have any...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/02/22/We-Dont-Really-Know-What-the-Dodo-Looked-Like/In 1922, explorers discovered the tomb of Egypt's King Tutankhamun. Then we went a hundred years without finding the burial place of any pharaoh, until now. In 2022, a tomb was uncovered near Luxor that at first seemed t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/02/22/For-the-First-Time-in-100-Years-an-Egyptian-Kings-Tomb-Has-Been-Found/People are very adaptable, and can make a culture out of a simple architectural feature. And thus it is with the iconic stoops of New York City. "Stoop" is a Dutch word for stairs, and in the 17th century, they built gra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/02/22/Whats-So-Special-About-the-Stoops-of-New-York/Gallaudet University is a school in Washington, D.C. dedicated to the educational needs of deaf students. The appropriately-named blog Library Shenanigans described a vicious and cruel prank played on the beleaguered lib...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/02/22/The-Gallaudet-Library-Prank/Fun question from @Sam__Enright:What’s the “anti-reading list” in your field of expertise? pic.twitter.com/vawry5SLok— Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) February 21, 2025 This is an interesting question...
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