Because you’re not going to wow audiences with an explosion that looks like my buddy Dave clenching a firecracker between his butt cheeks (classic Dave), this is a video of Tom Scott working with a professional pyrotechnician (my dream gig) to explain why movie explosions look so much grander than

Note: Chart cut for brevity, keep going for the whole thing. This is a visualization created by the chart and graph makers at Visme of the most common birth months for countries around the world, grouped into latitudinal geographic zones. I learned a lot by looking at it. Mostly, that

This is a US map detailing each state’s least favorite other state, as according to Instagram user mattsurelee’s 398,000 followers, so you know it’s accurate. Now I was born in West Virginia, and have lived in Alabama, Florida, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, California and New York, and as much as it

This is another size comparison video from MetaBallStudio (previously), this time comparing the sizes of various fictional watercraft from popular media (including video games). Which was your favorite? There are so many to choose from. Of course a wise person once said, it’s not the size of your ship that

To put things into perspective, this is a timeline of the major Star Wars movies and shows relative to our own real timeline from 1952 – 2019. I learned a lot by looking at it. Mostly, that according to my calculations it would appear Anakin is old enough to be

This is a map detailing where the most out-of-state residents of each particular state come from. I learned a lot by looking at it. Mostly that Californians refuse to move any further east than Texas. Or maybe they all just run out of gas money there after having their dreams

Created by former professor of urban studies Alasdair Rae of Sheffield, England, this is a 3D visualization of the world’s population density. As you can see, along all the coasts are generally very popular places to live. Also, absolutely everywhere in Asia. If there’s dry land to walk on there,

This is a 3D visualization comparing the size of the largest living versus extinct animals of the same species, with a human standing there for reference/to keep the predators’ attention. In almost all cases, there was a larger species that has since gone extinct. I mean, if you believe the