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Why the Same Words in United States Are Spelled Differently From Their British Counterparts
In the informative etymological whiteboard series for Mental Floss , linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean O’Neill verbally and visually explain the process in by…
A Gruesome Halloween Makeup Tutorial That Makes It Look Like Your Face Melting Off of Your Skull
Talented Los Angeles makeup artist Desi Perkins has released an awesome makeup tutorial video where she demonstrates how to make it look as if your…
PokéMasks, Highly Detailed 3D Masks That Look Like Pokémon Characters
A photo posted by PokéMasks (@pokemasks) on Oct 4, 2016 at 9:08pm PDT Conor Browne of Baltimore has created PokéMasks, an amusing collection of highly…
A Real-Life Version of Dug, The Talking Dog From Pixar’s Up Visits a Park to Make New Friends
Oh My Disney put a talking collar on a real dog to create a real-life version of Dug, the talking dog from Pixar’s Up and…
Gabe the Dog Barks a Dramatic Cover of the Song ‘Feel Good Inc.’ by Gorillaz
Christian Gassner of Rapid Liquid has created a great multitrack video of Gabe, Jesse Hamel‘s cute little dog that’s a mix of American Eskimo and…
Super Slow Motion Video of Firecrackers Exploding Underwater Filmed at 120,000 FPS
Dan Gruchy and Gavin Free from The Slow Mo Guys filmed firecrackers exploding underwater at 120,000 fps. The video is a revisited experiment that they tried previously…
A Supercut of Iconic Sneakers in Movies
French filmmaker Candice Drouet (a.k.a. “Really Dim“) has created a supercut video featuring all sorts of iconic shoes that have appeared in movies. music by…
An Amazing Halloween Light Show Synchronized to Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’
In celebration of Halloween, the folks at Creative Lighting Displays built an amazing light show for 2016 at the Hank Aaron Stadium in Mobile, Alabama.…
Star Wars Themed Desks and Beds for Kids
The Rooms To Go furniture company has released an out of this world collection of Star Wars themed desks and beds that will take children…
A Bad Lip Reading of the First Presidential Debate
Bad Lip Reading took on the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. In addition to their usual level of absurd word replacement, they…