This is a video of Tom Scott visiting the Montreal Olympic Sports Centre (built for the 1976 Summer Olympics), which features the only indoor 20-meter diving platform in North America. Apparently cliff diver Lysanne Richard convinced the Montreal Olympics Park to add an 18m platform in the rafters when the
This is a video of a crab man at what I assume is a swingers resort demonstrating the incredible power of refraction, with his body seemingly completely disconnected from his head in a curved glass (read: acrylic) walled pool. Physics! Still, as wild as this is, I imagine even crazier
This is a short video of the Stranger Things inspired floating Max Halloween yard decoration set up by Chicago-based Dave and Aubrey Appel. Apparently Max is made out of pool noodles, and really is floating, although the couple won’t reveal how exactly they made it ahead of the Halloween holiday.
This is some fan footage from the Monza Circuit in Italy highlighting the incredible speed and braking of F1 cars as they approach the Rettifilo chicane turn on the track and have to brake from their straight-away speed in order to navigate the sharp turn. I think you’ll probably agree
This is a video of a spotter of the highest caliber sliding a mat under a gymnast who missed his mark by a longshot and is about to take a hard fall onto the floor. Granted the floors are already padded, but still, that was about to really suck. Possibly
This is a video of a forced perspective billboard in Times Square where a licker escapes its glass cell as a promo for the upcoming Resident Evil series on Netflix. Obviously it’s pretty cool, but it only really works from this one particular angle. From any other angle it will
Because how it’s made is often a fascinating process (especially love), this is a video from a factory where a GWIN TECH blow-molding machine makes an entire boat from a solid piece of plastic. The blow-molding process involves heating a bladder of plastic so it’s nice and malleable, then pressing
This is a video captured by an unmanned rover operated by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) featuring a previously unseen species of crown (Atolla) jellyfish. Crown jellyfish my ass — somebody call Samus! This particular metroid lives at depths between 3,323 to 10,463 feet (or about 2 to