Because what’s better than one sport than three sports combined (hi-five, triathlon!), these are a couple videos of regball games in Russia, a hybrid sport that combines elements of basketball, Greco-Roman wrestling, and rugby. Now just figure out a way to also add some curling action and I’ll petition it
Almost ten years after scientists first noticed the cracks growing, the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica has calved, leading to the formation of a 1,270-square kilometer (~490 square mile) iceberg roughly 150 meters thick. Obviously, I plan on towing the iceberg to California where I’ll secure the record for world’s
Because dream it and you can achieve it, this is a video of Finnish artist Juho Könkkölä folding a single square piece of 68cm (~27-inch) “wafer-thin Wenzhou paper” into a 20cm (~8-inch) samurai warrior over the course of 50 hours (thankfully, the video is condensed to five minutes) with no
This is a video from Jaigaon, India of a honey buzzard going to town on a bee’s nest for some honey. So, if you were wondering whether the name honey buzzard is a misnomer, the answer is an unequivocal no. And that thing does not give a dang about those
This is a video tour of the incredibly impressive full-size pinball machine built out of K’Nex by Youtuber Tyler Bower. The machine stands 7-feet tall, 5-feet long, 3-feet wide, has automatic scoring and nine unique features including ramps, trap doors, multiball, and a mini pinball playfield. Three motors (including a
Presumably to avoid detection by enemy radar, this is a video of Spanish professional golfer Jon Rahm skipping a ball across a pond on the 16th hole at the Augusta National Golf Club for a hole-in-one during Masters practice on Tuesday. Wow, all this time and I had no idea
Because the human body is a magnificent machine (except mine — mine appears to have been slapped together with the parts left over from Frankenstein’s monster), this is a video of world champion 110-meter hurdler Grant Holloway doing his thing with his head stabilized in the video. Some more info
Because sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, this is a video from a metro station outside Rotterdam in the Netherlands of a train that overran the stop and came to a rest some 30-feet in the air atop a giant whale tail sculpture, allowing the driver to exit the train