This a clip of 14-year old Dev Shah clenching victory in the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee by correctly spelling ‘psammophile’ (pronounced sam-a-file, a plant or animal that prefers or thrives in sandy areas). He knew from the very start that he had it. Way to go, Dev. For reference,

This is a video of Youtube Brick Technology constructing a clock almost entirely out of ingenuity and LEGO that counts seconds, minutes, and hours like a traditional clock, but also fortnights, months, years, decades, centuries, millennium, 100,000 years, megaannum (1,000,000 years), and a galactic year (230-million years). Its bob (weight)

This is a video from the fun/destruction loving Aussies of Youtube channel How Ridiculous destroying a variety of different objects with their katana machine, a rotor that spins its sword blades at 750km/h (466MPH). Plus they filmed the action in 6000FPS ultra-slow motion to capture all the details. Honestly, the

Because everybody needs a hobby and the best hobbies require only a decent pair of shoes and a devil-may-care attitude, this is a video of UK freerunner Max Webb performing a corkscrew jump from a rooftop to a tiny ledge across the alley. That’s wild. Even wilder? That his friends

Because some people actually have the gumption to see their ridiculous ideas through to fruition instead of abandoning them the morning after the “scribbled on a bar napkin” phase, this is a video of Youtuber Scotty Cranmer and friends riding the pogo stick bike they constructed. Instead of wheels it

This is a video of crazy person Laso Schaller setting world records for both the Highest Dive from a High Diving Board and Highest Cliff Jump by leaping from a platform built on a cliff in Maggia, Ticino, Switzerland in 2015 while a group of spectators watch (the tiny ants

Because dream it and you can at least try to achieve it even if you don’t like these guys, this is a video from the car lovers (nice bumper, yow yow!) at Overdrive handbrake turning their way into increasingly smaller parallel parking spots in an attempt to beat the world

This is a video of a Singaporean foursome performing a choreographed indoor skydiving routine at the 2023 World Indoor Skydiving Championships, complete with a bunch of flips and twists and hand-holding and all sorts of other fun stuff. You know, I’ve always considered trying this indoor skydiving thing, but I’m