These are a couple videos of Prince Rupert’s Drops being crushed by hydraulic presses (the first actually bends the metal of the press and doesn’t break, in the second video they explode in a supernova of glory). What are Prince Rupert’s Drops and why are they so indestructible? READ AND
This is a video of heavy breather Sergey Tsyrulnikov setting the Guinness World Record for most hot water bottles burst in 1 minute via overinflating with breath, with a respectable nine. Of course that’s all the water bottles there were on the table, so thank goodness he didn’t finish them
This is a video from Youtuber Zac Alsop, who teamed up with Hector, who raises bulls in Madrid, Spain for the sport of bull-leaping (an ancient non-violent form of bull-fighting in which participants leap and dive over the charging animals) to see how a real life bull would react in
This is a video from Slow Mo Guys Gav and Dan, who teamed up with funlovers Aussies Brett and Scott of How Ridiculous (when Youtube worlds collide!) to fire a bowling ball out of a cannon at 400MPH and directly into a realistic ballistics head, complete with skull. After watching
NOTE: Volume on. This is a video of a retaining wall that was protecting a parking lot giving up the ghost and letting nature reclaim the asphalt, along with several vehicles. I hope they had Farmers Insurance! (They’ve seen a thing or two) One brave motorist even risks it all
Presumably training to take down that wall behind him, this is a video of a man chopping over 120 bricks in a row using only his hand and a short concrete wall. Like the Energizer bunny, he just keeps going. Me? I would have stopped after just a few. “I’ll
This is a short security cam video that captured the end life cycle of a road sign, from initial accident (sideswiped by a bus) to eventual death (drunk man breaking post, carrying pole away). That poor sign — you almost feel bad for it. Then you remember it’s just a
This is a short, almost perfect internet video. It has everything: things you saw coming from a mile away, plus SURPRISES. So — is everything a coincidence, or is there an undercurrent of order in the universe? “Coincidence.” Good answer — everything is chaos. Especially cats and my life. View