This is a video highlighting the record breaking number of technological implants that ‘biohacking magician’ Anastasia Synn has in her body. Implants include a bunch of magnets (those would certainly help with magic tricks), as well as chips (not potato) with various functions like opening doors, reading her temperature, and
This is a video of African Gray parrot Apollo setting the Guinness World Record for most objects identified by a parrot in 3 minutes, with a total of 12. While it’s certainly impressive he can identify objects at all, I feel like there’s room for improvement. I mean that’s only
Because there’s a record for absolutely everything (presumably so everyone can hold one and feel they’re the best at something, possibly because nobody else thought to try), this is a video (which, with some added power chords, could double as a death metal music video) of Andrew Stanton setting a
This is a Red Bull video of Olympic ski jumping gold medalist Ryōyū Kobayashi setting a new world ski jump record with an absolutely insane 291-meter jump. It beats the previous world record by a very respectable 37.5 meters, and was performed on a special ramp made just for the
This is a video of jump roper Cen Xiaolin setting a new world speed record with an astonishing 228 jumps (technically alternate leg skips) in 30 seconds. That’s 7.6 jumps PER SECOND. Cen has been at it the speed jumping for awhile, and his record 8 years ago was only
This is a clip from BBC Earth and my main man knight Sir David Attenborough highlighting the web-slinging capabilities of Darwin’s bark spider. The spider is capable of blasting a continuous fan of webbing that catches the wind like a sail and can cross a body of water up to
This is a video of 19-year old American figure skater Ilia Malinin at the 2024 World Championships setting a new world record for highest free skate score with a very respectable 227.79, beating fellow American Nathan Chen’s previous 224.92 set at the 2019-20 Grand Prix Final. The routine, which gave
This is a video of concert organist Felix Hell performing a tribute to Johann Sebastian Bach on the largest musical instrument in the world, the Boardwalk Hall Auditorium pipe organ in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The organ contains 33,451 pipes, weighs over 150 tons, and is also the loudest instrument