This is a video from some adventure-seekers in Tonga diving with a couple humpback whales, who just narrowly miss a whale’s tail flip. I don’t know, maybe don’t get so close to them. They don’t come to where you live and fill your house with plastic, do they? While certainly

This is a video of ‘Kapla construction expert’ Crouzier Benjamin and friends gloriously knocking over ‘Flower’, a megastructure consisting of about 35,000 Kapla blocks, 8,000 dominoes, and a whole bunch of popsicle sticks it took five builders over 3 days to erect, and about two minutes to knock down. It’s

Because occasionally dreams really do come true, Reese’s has released this massive pie-sized peanut butter cup in time for Thanksgiving. The beast measures 9-inches in diameter and contains a total of 3.4-pounds of peanut butter and chocolate. A serving suggestion is 1/48th of the pie (how can you even cut

In everything is bigger in Texas news, this is a video from San Antonio of a large Texas brown tarantula that a homeowner spotted wandering the backyard all the way from the home’s back door. Well how about that! Say, isn’t San Antonio where the Alamo is? “Sure is.” I

Because I demand my curly fries be at least six feet long, this is a video highlighting ‘Doug’, a record-breaking 7.9kg (17.4-pound) potato discovered by Colin and Donna Craig-Brown of Wellington, New Zealand, while weeding their garden. Some more info about the accidental discovery of their record-breaking tuber while I

This is a video from the Giant Pumpkin Drop at Bauman’s Fall Festival in Gervais, Oregon, featuring a 1,200-pound pumpkin being hoisted 100-feet into the air, then dropped into an inflatable pool. I didn’t expect much, and I got so, so much more. I only wish I’d been there to

This is a visualization from MetaBallStudio (previously) comparing the sizes of fictional sea monsters from popular culture, including literature, film, and video games. It begins with the diminutive ~5cm Plankton from SpongeBob SquarePants and ends with a 40km Kraken from Warhammer 40,000. I learned a lot by watching it. Mostly,

This is a video of ex-NASA engineer turned YouTube money maker Mark Rober (previously) setting the world record for the world’s tallest elephant toothpaste chemical reaction, mixing hydrogen peroxide, soap, and potassium iodide in a 5-ton flask with a resulting volcano that reaches a respectable altitude of 250-feet. Obviously, if