This is a video of a professional arborist (read: with the appropriate safety equipment) in San Bernadino, California cutting the top off a 100-foot palm tree that was being removed to reduce its risk of falling on something in the area, and riding the makeshift catapult like a seasoned cowboy
This is a super short video of Washington State University track and fielder Ray Wells Jr. casually clearing a 61-inch (5-foot, 1-inch) hurdle with the apparent ease of stepping over a passed out roommate. For reference, I fell trying to put my pants on this morning and hurt my elbow.
These are a couple of videos of Brazilian big wave surfer Maya Gabeira setting the women’s world record for largest wave surfed, with this terrifying 73.5-foot bonecrusher off the coast of Nazaré, Portugal. Holy smokes! Obviously, if these giant waves aren’t a sign that Poseidon is pissed with the way
This is a video of Youtuber and builder/destroyer of things Crouzier Benjamin knocking over the 18,000 wooden Kapla block tower and bridge system he constructed over the course of three days that takes up an entire room. Man, those electrical cords plugged in on the left side were giving me
In other world record news, this is a video of Paul Scardino of Winchester City, Virginia, providing a tour of his basement, where he stores his world record collection of Funk Pop! figures, with a staggering 5,306 Pops. For reference, that’s about 5,303 more than I own. I’m honestly surprised
This is a video of Youtuber Kurtis Baute using a 13,799 piece, 300-meter long domino maze to tell the history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the present, sad bang. Obviously, the dominos are a metaphor for time, with each individual piece falling representing the passing of a
This is a short video of a Michigan bow fisherman almost catching a dead himself when an arrow ricochets off a log in the water and makes a beeline for his head. In his own words while I replay the video to see if you can hear the fish cheering:
In fake, the shadows are all wrong news, this is a video of a modern assassin from Assassin’s Creed effortlessly jumping across a bunch of tall, narrow stone pillars in a park. For reference, I wouldn’t have even been able to climb the first one to get started. And, if