Way To Go: Tourist Breaks Toes Off Statue While Laying On It Posing For Picture
Because who can resist a photo with a tasteful nude, a 50-year old Austrian man was recently identified after he laid on the 1804 plaster cast model of Paolina Bnaparte by Antonio Canova at the Gipsoteca Museum in Possagno, Italy, and broke three toes off the statue in the process,
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Dare To Dream: Man Successfully Water Skis Wearing 11-Foot Stilts
This is a video of Minnesotan dentist Christopher Dens setting the unofficial world record for tallest stilts worn while waterskiing, with some 11-footers. There’s also a compilation video of all the fails it took while practicing to finally achieve the feat. Cool, but he should have made some custom jeans
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Beetle Species That Crawls Through Frog’s Guts After Being Eaten To Escape Out Butt
Because where there’s a will, there’s a way, Kobe University ecologist Shinji Sugiura has discovered a species of water beetle (Regimbartia attenuata) that, when eaten by a pond frog (Pelophylax nigromaculatus), will actually crawl through the frog’s intestinal tract and emerge from its anus, no worse for wear minus being
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Olympic Swimmer Does Lap While Balancing Glass Of Chocolate Milk On Her Head
This is a video of five time Olympic gold medalist swimmer Katie Ledecky swimming a lap while balancing a glass of chocolate milk on her head to participate in the TikTok Got Milk? challenge, and not the WTF World Do We Live In? challenge like you might have expected. Her
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Setting The World Record For Most Bowling Balls Stacked Vertically
This is a video of Shen Xiaoshi of China setting the Guinness World Record for most bowling balls stacked vertically, successfully balancing ten balls on top of each other before the tower collapses when he tried to add an eleventh. I think I speak for everyone here when I say
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Parkour Parkour!: Guy Effortlessly Hops Across Tall, Narrow Stone Pillars In Park
In fake, the shadows are all wrong news, this is a video of a modern assassin from Assassin’s Creed effortlessly jumping across a bunch of tall, narrow stone pillars in a park. For reference, I wouldn’t have even been able to climb the first one to get started. And, if
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Smashing Things With A 660-Pound Solid Steel Hulk Fist Dropped From 150-Feet
Because some people are actually out there living the dream, this is a video from the guys of Youtube channel How Ridiculous dropping a 660-pound solid steel machined Hulk fist from 45-meters (~150-feet) to smash things below, including a toy dinosaur, stack of metal chairs, empty fire extinguisher, piece of
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“It’s A Death Ray”: Experimenting With A 200-Watt Powerful Burning Laser
This is a video of TheBackyardScientist experimenting with a 200-watt powerful burning laser to burn a bunch of stuff INCLUDING A ROCK, then mounting the thing to a vehicle and waving it around in the sky (after verifying there would be no planes nearby). Just look at that thing. Interestingly,
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