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Building a Bench Press Out of a Tree
Hudson White and his father Duke of the Buff Dudes challenged themselves to build a bench press entirely from a tree that needed to be…
Talented Pianist Plays Beautiful Classical Music for Blind Elephants at a Sanctuary in Thailand
Paul Barton (previously), an artist and musician living in Thailand, performed beautiful Bach piano piece for a blind elephant named Lam Duan at Elephants World…
82 Year Old Man With the World’s Longest Fingernails Cuts Them Off After 66 Years
An 82 year old man from India who set the Guinness World Record for the longest fingernails 2014, traveled to New York City to have them cut.
News Reporter Repeatedly Saying ‘Yah Guys’
An amusing compilation of Jeff Van Sant starting off each Seattle Q13 FOX News report with “yah guys”. He’s following in the footsteps of the…
A Beautiful Tribute to Photo Mode in Video Games
Polygon video editor Clayton Ashley spent two months paying as many games as possible that have a photo mode option, a feature that allows you…
Fan Theories Explaining the Cryptic Contents Held Within the Mysterious ‘Pulp Fiction’ Briefcase
Susannah McCullough of ScreenPrism explored some of the fan theories that try to explain the cryptic contents of the mysterious 666 black briefcase that changed…
Talented Keyboardist Recreates All of the Many Synth Sounds Found in the Iconic Toto Song ‘Africa’
On the first episode of the second season of the Reverb Series Synth Sounds, the very talented keyboardist William Kurk broke down “the internet’s favorite…
The Sourtoe Cocktail, A Quirky Yukon Hotel Drink That Contains a Severed, Preserved Human Toe
In a dactylic episode of Things You Might Not Know, the rather adventurous host Tom Scott travelled to Dawson City in Yukon, Canada, where he…
How to Teach a Cat to ‘Handshake’ Upon Request
In their first video of a soon-to-be ongoing series, human Pat and cat Sherlock demonstrated an efficient way to teach a cat how to proffer…
A Brilliantly Designed 21 Speed Ceramic Bicycle Drivetrain That Replaces Derailleurs and Chains
The Danish company CeramicSpeed in collaboration with the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Colorado, has updated the simple bicycle with “Driven”, a brilliantly…