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

Red Bull: it gives you wings. But what you might not know is that it also makes you a pinball, as evidenced by the company constructing this giant 65-foot human pinball machine at a 45-degree angle and letting freerunner Pasha ‘the Boss’ Petkuns attempt to set a high score as

In oh hell no news, this is a video of conservationist and freediver Ocean Ramsey casually swimming alongside a 20-foot long, 8-foot wide great white (possibly Deep Blue) off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii. She even holds hands/fins with it at one point. That is very brave. Still, I think

Microorganisms: do they really exist or are they just made up by scientists to explain magic? The world may never know. But this is another in MetaBallStudio’s unending series of size comparison videos (previously), this time visualizing the size of various microorganisms using humans, increasingly larger manmade objects, and eventually

This is a timelapse video of puzzler Andre F assembling ‘Around The World’ by Educa, a 42,000-piece jigsaw puzzle featuring world landmarks, available on Amazon HERE for $500. The product page says the puzzle is divided into seven bags, each representing a different horizontal portion of the puzzle for easier

This is a Guinness World Record video of the world’s largest balloon dinosaur, a very respectable 64-foot long, 150,000 balloon lightweight behemoth constructed at a shopping mall in Istanbul, Turkey. Thankfully, all the balloons are biodegradable, so you don’t have to worry about them ending up undigested in the stomach