Meet Flossie, a tortoiseshell cat from Orpington, England, who, just ahead of her 27th birthday, has been recognized as the world’s oldest living cat. Not bad, Flossie, but if you plan on taking the oldest cat in the world record you better still have plenty of years left in you,
This is some incredible footage from the innovative Lumiere Brothers in 1899 of a troupe of child acrobats in Paris performing some stunts, including a human pyramid and two members passing and juggling a small boy with their feet like he’s a sack of potatoes. The footage was colorized and
This is a video of Instagrammer yorkshire.fossils (I prefer the pudding myself) smacking a rock open with a hammer to reveal the perfect ammonite fossil inside. What are the odds?! “Well based on all the other ammonite fossils just lying around, I’m guessing pretty good.” You ruin everything, you know
This is a video of Louis Le Prince’s ‘Roundhay Garden Scene’ footage — the oldest known video — shot in October of 1888 in England, upscaled to 60 frames/second using an ensemble of neural networks, with some stabilization, deflickering, denoise and coloration added for good measure. Overall it looks like
This is a video of Youtuber and meteorite ring maker David Windestal crafting a beautiful ring from a 4,566,300,000 year old (20,000,000 years older than earth) iron Muonionalusta meteorite with a very distinct Widmanstätten pattern. If you’re interested in a similar ring, David actually has some pre-made ones available starting