The World’s Largest Kapla Plank Tower Gets Knocked Down
Constructed over the course of four days by 18 steady-handed builders, this is a video of the world’s largest Kapla plank tower being destroyed (Kapla planks are like long dominoes made from pine). The tower measured a very respectable 82-feet tall, and took over 100,000 planks to construct. Wow! The
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Simpsons Barney Gumble Art Reflects Horrifying Image In Kitchen
Because you don’t know until it’s hung and makes you stain your underwear in broad daylight, this is the piece of Barney Grumble framed art that Twitter user Emily Cook decided to display in her home, and the resulting reflection it makes in the kitchen. Yikes! I’m used to getting
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Valuable Info: How To Get Back Into A Capsized Canoe
Because knowledge is power, this is a video of DJ from Youtube channel The Bear Essentials detailing how to get back in a capsized canoe in deep water. It does involve grabbing your thwart and yoke, which I do all the time, capsized boat or not. First you right the
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Tourist Nearly Gets SUV Stuck In Drive-Through Redwood Tree
Presumably after ignoring the posted signage, this is a clip of a family of tourists in their Nissan Armada painfully passing through the Shrine Drive-Thru Tree at the Avenue of the Giants in Myers Flat, California, scraping the SUV and destroying their sideview mirrors in the process. The 175-foot redwood
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Released Grizzly Bear Immediately Attacks Camera
This is a video of a 17-year old male grizzly being re-released into the wild after being trapped by bear-biologist Tim Manley due to repeatedly raiding chicken coops. They moved him to a much more remote area for release with the hopes he has less run-ins with humans. And, to
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Playing Heavy Metal On An Indian Sitar
This is a video of guitarist Bernth (previously playing a water-filled guitar) experimenting with an 18-string Indian sitar to incorporate its sound into his heavy metal. He produces some pretty tasty riffs with it too. Maybe not something I’d eat all day every day, but it’s not kid’s cereal or
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Cuttlefish Hypnotizes Crab With Pulsating Skin Patterns Before Attack
This is a clip from BBC’s Blue Planet II featuring Sir David Attenborough narrating the action as a cuttlefish uses its insane pulsing skin color to hypnotize a crab, then attack it. How quickly its color changes is wild, there’s no question it’s an alien. Admittedly, I felt like I
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Jumping Spider Grabs Fly Out Of The Air After Determining Which Way It Will Take Off
This is a short clip of a jumping spider approaching a house fly, determining which way it will take off (SPOILER: forwards), then grabbing it out of the air as soon as it does. Impressive. Of course the right way to take off would have been as soon as it
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