In now that would make an awesome middle school field trip news (we went to a waste water treatment plant), this is a video from inside a LEGO factory detailing how minifigs are made, at rates up to 8,000 minifigs/hour. Fascinating. Of course the short answer of how LEGO minifigs

This is a video from the Faber-Castell pen manufacturing plant in Engelhartszell, Austria detailing how the “superfluorescent” Textliner 48 highlighter is made. The factory in Engelhartszell produces some 35-million pens and markers every year, and I suspect at least half of those eventually spend some time in a person’s butt.

This is a classic clip from How Its Made featuring the processes by which waffle, sugar, and cake cones are manufactured on an industrial scale. That’s easy, waffle and sugar cones are made with deliciousness, and cake cones are made with the material that didn’t pass quality control to become

This is a video from the Popular Mechanics series ‘MADE HERE’ featuring a look inside the Hostess snacks factory. While it’s certainly a delicious video to watch, all the customized automation used to produce the snacks is impressive to see as well. FUN FACT: Did you know Hostess produces approximately