Learning By Looking: How Mayonnaise Is Made
This is a clip from How It’s Made taking a tour inside the Duke’s Mayonnaise factory to show how the condiment is manufactured in quantity. It was pretty fascinating to watch. Of course if you don’t have the five minutes to watch the video I’ll just tell you how it’s
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Adam Savage Builds Dart Shooting Helmet, Complete With Laser Sight
This is a video of Adam Savage designing, building, and testing a dart shooting helmet (built using D-DART Pro Blasters, Amazon link), complete with revolving warning light on top and a laser sight. As far as dart-shooting helmets go, this is probably the best one I’ve seen. Of course it’s
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Now Make Those Balls Disappear: Magician Performs At Nudist Club
This is a clip from Netflix’s ‘Magic For Humans’ starring the show’s Justin Willman performing a variety of tricks at Olive Dell Nudist Ranch. You know, for a ranch I felt there was a surprising lack of spurs. Admittedly, the tricks Justin performs were all pretty impressive, although I had
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Man Ignores Zipline Weight Limit Warning, Gets Painfully Rewarned
In why hasn’t somebody added Miley Cyrus’s ‘Wrecking Ball’ to this news, here’s a home video of Michael Chicoine testing a children’s zipline, despite the fact it’s probably made for kids under 120 pounds and not 220-pound adult men capable of generating so much momentum before hitting the spring brake
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Realistic Fish Carved From Broccoli Stalk
Because apparently art is everywhere (including in the crisper drawer), these are a couple shots of the fish that Japanese fruit and vegetable artist Kishimoto Takehiro carved into a stalk of broccoli. How about that! I know some kids complain about eating their broccoli, but I love it. Granted I’ve
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Fingers Of Fury: Man Plays Piano At 152 BPM
This is a video of musician Lorenzo Vaccaro playing “the supposedly impossible MIDI track Rush E” at a very respectable 152BPM. For reference, that’s about my heart rate on my walk down the driveway to get the mail. My doctor says I’m going to die. My bookie says the same
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Garbage Truck Dumps Entire Trash Can Into Rear, Popping Its Wheels Off
This is a video of a garbage truck picking up and accidentally dropping an entire trash can into its compactor, popping the can’s wheels off in the process. How perfectly the wheels fly off — it’s like art. I mean if art wasn’t dead. Well, except for tasteful nudes —
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Dad On Virtual Reality Balance Beam Dives Into Flatscreen, Breaking It
Because the moment some people put on virtual reality goggles all sense of the analog world disappears and they become fully immersed in the Matrix, this is a video of Ashley Cacioppo’s dad diving into his television from a VR balance beam, breaking the screen. Just where the hell did
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