This is a video from explainer of things Tom Scott taking a tour of and discussing the last aerial ropeway in England, one built in the 1920’s that’s operated by Claughton Brickworks in Lancashire. The ropeway is about 1.5-miles long, hauls 300-tons of shale every day, and does it all
Because pets are the best and deserve the best, this is a video from The Dodo detailing an Australian dog dad who cut two pairs of eye and snout holes in his home’s fence so dogs Billie and Seymour (aka the peekaboopuppies) can greet their mom as soon as she
This is some underbelly footage from a plane dropping as many as 35,000 young fish at a time into remote lakes in Utah’s Boulder Mountain region (elevation: ~7,125 feet) to ensure there’s a healthy population present. I wonder what those fish were thinking. You think they briefly though they were
Because sometimes you don’t have a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down, this is a video of a mom demonstrating her trick for getting her daughter to drink her liquid medicine — by passing a straw through the top of Juicy Juice box, out of a hole
This is a short video from Walmart of a young girl dragging her unruly brother (who refused to stand up and walk) through the aisles of the store. Per the girl after dropping him off at her parents’ feet: “You look silly.” Damn, that would have launched me into a
Because shit happens (sometimes in the car when my girlfriend is driving and she can’t get me to a restroom fast enough and I have no choice but to crawl into the back seat and lay on my stomach, telling her I’ll understand if she decides to leave me and
This is a rather fascinating video of explainer of things Tom Scott visiting a grocery packing warehouse in the southeast of London, where 2,300 robots are constantly on the move gathering and packing bags of groceries for delivery to customers. The facility, the size of seven football (soccer?) fields, contains
This is some home security cam footage of a man successfully stopping his boat after it decided to try to make a trip to the lake itself. Per the homeowner who captured the footage: “My neighbor decided to take his boat out today.” LOL. Still, it really is amazing what