This is a video captured by an unmanned submersible operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Ocean Exploration team featuring a whiplash squid swimming in ‘marine snow’ at a depth of around 1,100 meters (3,609-feet, about 7/10ths of a mile). It’s not actually snow though, it’s delicious, nutritious
These are a couple videos of a man mounting a pole using only his legs while competing in Mallakhamba. Mallakhamba is a traditional Indian sport which “involves performing aerial yoga or gymnastic postures and wrestling grips with a vertical stationary or hanging wooden pole, cane, or rope.” That looks insane.
This is a video of Simba, a goat born in Pakistan with 48cm (~19″) ears, making it the new world record holder for longest eared goat. Wow, and to think I make fun of my girlfriend’s earlobes! “You know you’re lucky I don’t make fun of your penis.” Honey —
This is a video of a little girl demonstrating some mind blowingly impressive hand dancing optical illusions. It took me several views to understand just what the hell was going on, and even then my mind was blown, but, FULL DISCLOSURE: that doesn’t take much. “I’ve had to block him
These are a couple videos of athlete Dmitry Politov brutally reminding me just how out of shape I am and performing several human flags by jumping up and attaching himself to vertical poles with just his feet (aka toe-hooking). If you’re interested in badly injuring yourself, the second video is
Because I’m not really sure why, but there’s definitely no excuse for it, this is a video of ‘The Prayer’, a robotic mouth developed by conceptual scientist Diemut Strebe at MIT’s Center for Art, Science & Technology that endlessly sings AI-generated prayers. It was developed “to explore the possibilities of
This is a short video of a contortionist performing a series of moves and poses that almost made me forget his upper body is connected to his lower body. Or is it?! Dum dum dum! He begins with some flips where his feet and hands touch the ground simultaneously, and
Finally putting an end to the debate of how just long a person can rest their ass on the back of their head, this is a video of Mongolian contortionist Tsatsral Erdenebileg setting the new Guinness World Record for “Longest Time To Hold The Marinelli Bend Position” with a very