This is a visualization bar-charting the best selling video game consoles worldwide from 1978 – 2022. The Atari 2600 was the heavyweight early on, but then Nintendo came along and tore the gold medal right off its neck with the NES and Game Boy. Eventually, the Playstation 2 would take

Jonathan the tortoise, who’s lived at the governor’s residence on St. Helena (1,200 miles off the southwestern coast of Africa in the middle of vast ocean) since 1882, just celebrated what is believed to be his 190th birthday — although he could be even older. Honestly, he doesn’t look a

Meet Flossie, a tortoiseshell cat from Orpington, England, who, just ahead of her 27th birthday, has been recognized as the world’s oldest living cat. Not bad, Flossie, but if you plan on taking the oldest cat in the world record you better still have plenty of years left in you,

This is a video of little record setter Deshna Aditya Nahar, who at just 7-years old set the world record for fastest time to rollerskate limbo under 20 cars, with a very respectable 13.74 seconds. For reference, my best time is still counting up (it’s in the years now) since

Another example of yesterday’s need of extreme sporters to constantly push the envelope, this is a video of X-Games gold medalist Red Bull skateboarder Leticia Bufoni performing the world’s first ‘Sky Grind’ at 9,000 feet out the back of a plane. I like how fast the skateboard just zips away

Because the records you don’t need any special equipment for are the most economical to beat, this is a video of 20-year old Iowa clap master Dalton Meyer setting a new Guinness World Record for most claps in one minute, with a staggering 1,140, beating the previous record of 1,080.

These are several videos of tinkerer Kyle Krueger demonstrating the $679 Imalent MS18 LEF flashlight, the world’s brightest LED flashlight. The 100,000 lumen light has a reach of 1,350-meters and is definitely not a toy, although I would certainly still treat it like one. In the videos, Kyle shines the

Because dream it and, with enough people willing to risk broken bones you can achieve it, this is a video of Spain’s Castellers de Vilafranca setting a human pyramid record with a tower nine people high. Granted the very top floor of the tower is really only a half story