Because feats of the human spirit spirit come in all shapes and sizes, this is a video of Vietnamese duo Quoc Co and Quoc Nghiep quickly jaunting up 100 stairs at the Girona Cathedral in Spain with one balanced on the head of the other, on his own head. How

This is a video of the Guinness World Record holder for largest Rube Goldberg machine, an entirely overcomplicated machine that takes four and a half minutes and 427 individual steps to turn on a light. For reference, I usually get the job in a single step by yelling, “Hey —

This is another size comparison video from MetaBallStudio (previously), this time visualizing the increasing height of the world’s current tallest buildings (you can see the Burj Khalifa, fourth building from left), along with proposed future projects (some under construction, but most still conceptual). I learned a lot by watching it.

This is a video of a model train at Hamburg, Germany’s Miniatur Wunderland setting the Guinness World Record for the longest melody played by a model train, by tapping wine glasses set up along its 211-meter (692-feet) track. The train performs a melody of twenty different classical songs on over

Because I demand my curly fries be at least six feet long, this is a video highlighting ‘Doug’, a record-breaking 7.9kg (17.4-pound) potato discovered by Colin and Donna Craig-Brown of Wellington, New Zealand, while weeding their garden. Some more info about the accidental discovery of their record-breaking tuber while I

This is a Guinness World Record video about Paul Ufema, who recently set the world record for fastest build of the 7,541-piece LEGO Millennium Falcon set, then disqualified himself after realizing he failed to include a single piece. Talk about a complete waste of 16 hours, 10 minutes, and 29

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

Because learning to set things up and knock them down is an important school lesson, this is a video of New York’s Long Beach Middle School setting the world record for ‘Most Cereal Boxes Toppled in a Domino Fashion’ with a three cereal box wide line toppling 6,391 boxes in