This is a side-by-side-by-side-by-side comparison of a cigarette lighter being lit, shot using four different Phantom highspeed cameras, capturing the action at 3,200FPS, 5,300FPS, 8,300FPS, and Matrix-speed 28,500FPS. That 28,500FPS footage doesn’t even look real. *touching earpiece* I’m being told it is though. “Who was that?” My fact-checker. “Wait —

This is a short video from Youtuber Rescue & Restore, demonstrating the functionality of a 19th century candle snuffer, a device that automatically extinguishes a candle after it’s burned down to a certain point. Pretty clever. And here I thought the only way to extinguish candles was to wait for

Collected by 95 home dryer vent cleaning franchisees of Dryer Vent Wizard International, the company set the Guinness World Record for largest dryer lint ball collected, with a respectable 690 pound mound. They then had a group of firefighters from Farmington Hills, Michigan burn the ball to demonstrate just how

This is a flame rainbow, the ROYGBIV of fire created by adding methanol to different ionic salts (listed in the screenshot above in their respective tint), which result in the various flame colors. That’s cool. I was sort of hoping for one flame with all the different colors layered like

Because important scientific experiments take many different forms, this is a video of Youtuber HaerteRest packing a toilet bowl (and every other hole he could find) full with over 1,000 sparklers, then taking the toilet to the great outdoors to see what will happen when they’re all lit. SPOILER: it

This is some police dashcam and bodycam footage of a motorcycle/foot pursuit that ends with the suspect engulfed in flames after police taze him and his backpack (carrying a gallon of gasoline) is ignited. The suspect is expected to recover and faces all sorts of felony charges, but probably also

This is a video of Action Movie Dad’s action movie children playing with a leafblower he modded into a kid-friendly flamethrower with a length of colored fabric. Pretty clever. Now I’m sure there are some other parents out there who would just let their children play with actual fire in

This is a video of a drunk man at a wedding reception dancing with a sparkler then dry humping his partner and setting a dry flower display on fire in the process. He then proceeds to wipe the fire off the barrel with the sleeve of his suit jacket, and