This is a video from some South African hikers who encountered a large grizzly bear while out exploring the wild of the northern Rocky Mountains. Apparently the bear had been coming towards them for about a minute before the person with the camera realized this could be their last will
This is a visualization video from Youtube channel Real Data comparing the heights of the world’s tallest statues. I learned a lot by watching it. Mostly, that my penis dwarfs all of these and I should only make love to constellations. Granted I was already pretty sure before, but now
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
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,
LEGO has announced the release of it’s largest traditional building set to date — the 9,090 piece Titanic (previously: its 9,036-piece Roman Colosseum). The 1:200 scale ship measures a respectable 54″ long, 7″ wide, 18″ tall and breaks into three cross sections so you can see the various and inner
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
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