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Bride Secretly Learns Spanish To Address Husband And Guests At Wedding
This is a video of a bride who secretly learned some Spanish using online lessons over the course of the six months leading up to her wedding so she could address her husband and their friends and family in Spanish. She says she took the lessons while her fiancé played
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Wild Wolf Pup Attempts First Howling
This is a compilation video from The Voyageurs Wolf Project of a wolf cub making an attempt at howling for the first time. (previously: attaching a collar camera to a wild wolf). It tries so hard it almost falls over after a good effort, but by the end it’s getting
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I Want Out: Unevenly Stitched ‘High-Fashion’ Jeans
Because fashion knows no bounds (or decency), these are the unevenly stitched jeans created by Paris-based fashion house Leje. The Slash Jean ($417 – $441) has a single off-centered stitching diagonally across the knees, as if the jeans were slashed and sewn back together unevenly. The L Jean ($528) has
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Classic: Woman Tricks Mother Into Thinking She’s Drinking A Bottle Of Hot Sauce
Note: Language, mother may be a sailor. This is a video of a woman having McDonald’s breakfast in the car with her mom and tricking her into thinking she’s drinking a bottle of Frank’s Red Hot Buffalo sauce (she replaced it with tomato juice). Per her appropriately reacting mother: “Chris!
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Guy Documents Himself Learning To Ride A Penny-Farthing Bicycle
Because they sure don’t make them like they used to, this is a video of habitual learner of things Mike Boyd documenting the process in which he learned how to ride a penny-farthing bicycle. Surprisingly, the process didn’t just involve patiently waiting for his handlebar mustache to grow in and
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What Could Go Wrong?: Firing A Cannon In Backyard
Note: Check your volume, cannon. This is a short video from the Netherlands of what don’t appear to be the old timey war reenactors I expected firing a cannon while Johnny Cash’s ‘Ring Of Fire’ appropriately plays in the background and the shock wave breaks every window on the house
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Up, Up And Away!: Kitesurfer Jumps Across Peninsula
This is short clip of kitesurfer Reno Romeu launching over a peninsula on the coast of Arubinha, Brazil. One second he’s on one side, and a very brief time later, he’s on the other. Obviously, I plan on doing the same thing, except ALL THE WAY OVER THE WIDTH OF
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Google’s New 3D Video Chat Booth: Feel Like The Other Person Is Right There With You
This is a video just released by Google demonstrating its Project Starline, a fancy 3D video chat booth that’s supposed to make you feel like the person you’re talking to is actually sitting across from you through a window, jail visitation style. Some more info about the project while I
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The Future Nears: Photorealistic Rendering Of Grand Theft Auto
This is a video discussing and demonstrating a method for rendering a much more photorealistic version of Grand Theft Auto V using an artificial intelligence powered convolution network that produces images frame-by-frame at speeds fast enough to be run at interactive (read: playable) rates. Some more info that’s so far
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Video Of People Fleeing Skyscraper That Started Swaying For No Reason
This is a video from the streets of Shenzhen, China of people evacuating and fleeing the 71-story SEG Plaza skyscraper after it began swaying for no apparent reason. The building is the world’s 72nd tallest (21st tallest in China), and measures 256-meters (~840-feet) including its antennae. Officials reported calm winds
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