This is a video of an exhilarating trip down the 800-foot roller slide in Tabayama, Japan. It’s Japan’s longest roller slide (with a sliding surface of metal rollers like you’d imagine boxes traveling along in a factory) and opened in 1990. “The slide has no seat belts, helmets or much
This is a video from long-haul truck driver alexnnino demonstrating the assembly of an emergency toilet he keeps in the cabin in the event nature calls but he isn’t near a phone (read: restroom) to answer that call. It’s basically a folding metal stand with a toilet seat on top
These are several videos highlighting Norway’s Preikestolen (aka Pulpit Rock), a naturally formed granite overhang with a sheer drop of 604-meters (1,982 feet). The rock attracts some 300,000 visitors each year, and was formed 10,000 years ago in the most recent Ice Age. And, unlike US tourist attractions, the overhang
This is a video of a member of Malaysian dance group Budayawan performing a traditional Magunatip bamboo dance of the Murut people of Borneo, a former headhunter warrior tribe. It involves being blindfolded and dancing between bamboo poles that are constantly being clapped open and closed to the beat. It
This is a video of the host of travel site EYNTK demonstrating how he believes Aerosmith’s ‘Sweet Emotion’ lines up perfectly with the takeoff of most airplanes, from the moment of engine revving to wheels leaving earth. He claims the song works on 95% of the flights he’s taken, and
These are a couple videos from Ljubljana, Slovenia of volleyball being played on a platform in the middle of the Ljubljana River. That looks nice and refreshing! Plus the court has built-in lights for playing TRONBALL at night. Heck yeah! When in doubt, add more LED lights — that’s my
This is a video captured by drone pilot liulangCooki from Mount Everest’s base camp to its 29,000-foot summit. The whole flight took approximately 43-minutes (with stops at various camps along the way), which was timelapsed down to just 4 minutes in the video below. That’s good, because I don’t have
This is a video of TikTok user sanxyra providing the correct pronunciations for a handful of road names in Iceland, which all look suspiciously like they were chosen by pouring out Scrabble tiles. Because I have a curious mind, I went to Youtube to find a video of a GPS