This is a video of Tom Scott visiting the Montreal Olympic Sports Centre (built for the 1976 Summer Olympics), which features the only indoor 20-meter diving platform in North America. Apparently cliff diver Lysanne Richard convinced the Montreal Olympics Park to add an 18m platform in the rafters when the

Because this is the internet and the internet never stops churning like the belly of a foul beast, this is another mashup song from Youtuber There I Ruined It (previously ruined things HERE), this time combining Eminem’s ‘Rap God’ with ‘Dueling Banjos’ from Deliverance. It’s, uh…it’s really something. Something I

Spotted by Instagram user von_keck at DragonCon, this is a brief video of a man’s fantastic soot sprite (Susuwatari, traveling soot) costume, inspired by those seen in Studio Ghibli films Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro. I love those little soot sprites. I mean how couldn’t you? You show me

Another example of yesterday’s need of extreme sporters to constantly push the envelope, this is a video of X-Games gold medalist Red Bull skateboarder Leticia Bufoni performing the world’s first ‘Sky Grind’ at 9,000 feet out the back of a plane. I like how fast the skateboard just zips away

This is a video of Potato the Corgi running circles in the snow of her new backyard in Aurora, Colorado, after moving from California where she never got to experience snow. What a cutie! Are they the most perfect circles I’ve ever seen run? Of course not, but they’re far

Note: Check your volume, wind. Because extreme sports just aren’t extreme enough for some people and they demand even EXTREMER sports, these are a couple Instagram videos of BASE jumper David Laffargue being launched out of a human slingshot and into the wild blue yonder. That’s fun. I mean not

This is a “cinematic hyperlapse” tour of some of Paris’s most famous landmarks. Granted, I have no idea what a cinematic hyperlapse tour is supposed to be, but it was nothing like the Star Tours ride at Disneyland, which is what I was hoping for and was disappointed. There weren’t

This is a video of two researchers on Fergusson Island in Papua New Guinea checking a camera trap and realizing they’ve captured the image of a black-naped pheasant pigeon (locally known as Auwo), a bird unseen by scientists since 1882, and that had never been photographed. Apparently some locals claim