Because how it’s made is often a fascinating process (especially love), this is a video from a factory where a GWIN TECH blow-molding machine makes an entire boat from a solid piece of plastic. The blow-molding process involves heating a bladder of plastic so it’s nice and malleable, then pressing

This is a clip from Unwrapped on the Food Network detailing how Fruity Pebbles are made at a Post Foods factory. They’re made by cooking and dying regular white rice, then flattening it (seen in the photo above after this stage), toasting it to puff it back up and create

Ever wonder how plastic pollution is manufactured? Have I got the video for you! This is a clip of a 750mL water bottle blowing machine doing it’s thing — it’s thing being making future ocean trash as quickly as possible. There’s also a video of the same process being used

This is a clip from How It’s Made taking a tour inside the Duke’s Mayonnaise factory to show how the condiment is manufactured in quantity. It was pretty fascinating to watch. Of course if you don’t have the five minutes to watch the video I’ll just tell you how it’s

This is a video of a piece of steel being formed into a giant glowing coil at a steel mill. Obviously, your first reaction was, “My God I want to play with that Slinky.” And you totally should. Go ahead — pick it up. Speaking of picking things up, I

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