Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
Disney Imagineers Build a Walking Baby Groot Robot
The Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development team is developing a very short but freely mobile robot that can play the part of small characters…
Man Deliberately Inhales Two Different Non-Toxic Gases That Make His Voice Sound Deeper
Cody Don Reeder of Cody’s Lab, who previously flushed a toilet using 240 lbs of mercury instead of water, deliberately inhaled two different chemicals from…
South African Firefighters Give Parched Tortoise a Much Needed Drink of Water From a Water Bottle Cap
Volunteer firefighters with the Devils Peak Vredehoek Neighbourhood Watch took a moment out from their hard work fighting fires in Cape Town, South Africa to…
The Origins of the Word ‘America’
British comedians Jay Foreman (previously) and Mark Cooper-Jones of Map Men humorously dug into the origins of the word “America”, how the word came about,…
Curious Goat Teaches Himself to Balance On a Seesaw
A pair of curious goats named Alex and Junior who live at Tammy’s Oberlin Hobby Farm in Oberlin, Ohio, stood upon a seesaw and tried…
A Quaint Ukulele Cover of the Disco Song ‘Le Freak’
While performing in 2005 at the Barbican in London, The talented musicians of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (previously) played a rather quaint and…
Incredible 4K Remastered Footage From a 1973 Genesis Live Concert at the Bataclan Theatre in Paris
The Genesis Museum has taken classic 16mm film footage from a 1973 Genesis concert and remastered it to 4K high definition. They also used an…
Flawless Guitar Medley of 50 Popular Musical Memes
Musician The Doo, a guy who likes to “…play games and guitar, sometimes at the same time”, performed a flawless medley of 50 musical memes.…
A GoPro and 360° Camera Inside of a Dishwasher Capture What Happens During a Full Cycle
Matt Mikka put both a GoPro and a dive case enclosed Insta360 camera inside a dishwasher to capture what happens during a full cycle.
How Subtitles Become Useless When a Character Starts Speaking a Made Up Alien Language
Animator Joel Haver, who imagined how NPCs acted when a disconnected controller kills the player and the subsequent waning enthusiasm for said game, demonstrated the…