Chris Cornell Plays Haunting Acoustic Cover of Michael Jackson’s ‘Billie Jean’ at 2012 Montreux Jazz Festival

Chris Cornell performed a haunting cover of the iconic Michael Jackson song "Billie Jean" on acoustic guitar at the 2012 Montreux Jazz Festival. | Continue reading


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How to Solve the Problem of Accommodating New Dragons of Both Ice and Fire Into an Existing Kingdom

A clever Ted-Ed riddle by Henri Picciotto poses the question of how to accommodate the arrival of five new dragons, some of ice and some of fire. | Continue reading


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Chef Sculpts an Incredibly Realistic 8 Foot Tall Giraffe Completely Out of Chocolate

Chef Amaury Guichon of the Pastry Academy in Las Vegas went to great heights to sculp a very tall giraffe completely out of chocolate. | Continue reading


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Musician Plays ‘The Lick’ on 91 Different Instruments

Minnesota musician LukePk of InstrumentManiac performed "The Lick" of music on a remarkable 91 instruments. | Continue reading


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Friendly Cat Gives Encouraging High Fives to Crossfit Gym Members as They Run Past

A super friendly cat gave encouraging high-fives to Crossfit gym membres in Hohhot City, Inner Mongolia (Northern China) as they ran by. | Continue reading


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Tiny Toddler Covers Her Dog With Colorful Stickers

A toddler adorably covered a dog sitting beside her with stickers and then began to decorate another dog sitting on the other side. | Continue reading


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The Incendiary History of San Francisco’s Cliff House

This House recounts the long and incendiary history behind the iconic Cliff House that sits above the shores of Ocean Beach in San Francisco. | Continue reading


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A Heartbreaking Aerial Tilt-Shift Timelapse of the Largely Abandoned Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine

Joerg Daiber of Little Big World captured the heartbreakingly stark beauty of the nearly abandoned Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine. | Continue reading


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Tom Scott Rides a Giant Mechanical Elephant at Les Machines de l’île in Nantes, France

Tom Scott visited Les machines de l'île in Nantes, France to learn about and ride an enormous mechanical elephant that holds 50 people. | Continue reading


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A Beautifully Engineered LEGO Mangle Rack Clock

Akiyuki Brick Channel built a beautifully engineered LEGO mangle rack clock that completes an alternating circle every 60 seconds. | Continue reading


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A Portable Tin of Emergency Googly Eyes for Quick Personification of Inanimate Objects

Archie McPhee is selling a portable tin of Emergency Googly Eyes that stick onto inanimate objects for quick personification. | Continue reading


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Why a 15th Century Portrait of a German Noblewoman Depicts Her With a Fly on Her Head

Francesca Whitlum-Cooper of the National Gallery looks at a 15th Century portrait of a German noblewoman memorialized with a fly on her head. | Continue reading


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Fermenting and Distilling Oreos Into a Drinkable Spirit

Whiskey Tribe of the Crowded Barrel Whiskey Company attempted to distill Oreo cookies into a drinkable spirit. | Continue reading


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Artist Draws Murals With the Char of a Flaming Stick

Chinese artist Super Brother Fire Stick created an incredible mural onto a barn using the char from a long stick that he set on fire. | Continue reading


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Composer Builds Violin With a Broken Spring Reverb Tank From an Old Fender Amplifier

Musician David Hilowitz built a unique violin that featured a broken spring reverb tank from an old Fender amp inside the instrument. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 2 years ago

Woman Amusingly Narrates How One Turtle’s Attempt to Climb Onto a Log Knocked Other Turtles Off

Woman amusing narrated a scene where she found turtles sunning undisturbed on a log until a turtle she named Gary came along and ruined it. | Continue reading


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Why Filmmakers Use the 60-30-10 Color Rule

Filmmaker Wolfcrow explained what the 60-30-10 percent color rule entails and how it is featured in great movies. | Continue reading


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Filming Inside of a Piano With a Periscope Lens

Photographer Jens Heidler of Another Perspective captured fascinating footage of the inner workings of a piano using a periscope lens. | Continue reading


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Austrian Filmmaker Visits Street Artist Masnah at His Famous NFT Wall in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Filmmaker Igor Pogany visited street artist Masnah at the Williamsburg, Brooklyn wall where he paints fungible replications of NFTs. | Continue reading


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The Slow Mo Guys Create a Reflective Vortex Using Liquid Gallium Metal Inside a Blender

The Slow Mo Guys put liquid gallium into a blender to capture what it looked like as the silvery reflective metal spun around in slow motion. | Continue reading


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A Ravenous Glutton Muppet Stuffs His Face With Food on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ in 1971

The Glutton, a perpetually hungry Jim Henson muppet, made its ravenous debut in 1971 on the January 21 episode of "The Ed Sullivan Show". | Continue reading


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World’s Smallest Remote-Controlled Walking Robot Is As Small As a Flea and Can Walk on the Edge of a Penny

Northwestern University engineers developed a remote-controlled robot modeled after the peekytoe crab and is smaller than the average flea. | Continue reading


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A Bouncy Mashup of Eminem’s ‘Lose Yourself’ With the High-Pitched Sounds of a Super Mario Bros. Game

There I Ruined It hilariously mashed the Eminem song "Lose Yourself" with the high-pitched bouncy sounds of a Super Mario Bros. game. | Continue reading


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Musician Performs ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ by The Beatles in the Distinctive Style of Muse

Andre Antunes performed the iconic George Harrison song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" in the distinctive electronic falsetto style of Muse. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 2 years ago

A Suit of Armor Made Out of 24 Traffic Cones

Japanese modeler Tomohiro Yasui created an incredibly unique and flexible suit of armor that was fashioned out of 24 traffic cones. | Continue reading


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Iconic Funk Percussionist Dennis Chambers Plays Along With Tool’s ‘Schism’ After Hearing It for the First Time

Funk drummer Dennis Chambers played along to an isolated drumless version of the dark Tool song "Schism" after hearing it for the first time. | Continue reading


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Teenagers Jumping Off Moving Boats to Deliver Mail

Wisconsin teens try out for Lake Geneva mail jumping jobs by racing off a moving boat to a mailbox and running back onto the moving craft. | Continue reading


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1,000 Musicians Perform a Heartfelt Cover of the Foo Fighters Song ‘My Hero’ in Memory of Taylor Hawkins

The Rockin'1000 performed a heartfelt cover of "My Hero" by Foo Fighters in memory of the late Taylor Hawkins at their Paris 2022 show. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 2 years ago

Rescued Cat Who Loves Plastic Containers Gets a Special Delivery From His Humans

Oliver, a rescued cat who loves all sorts of plastic containers, received a special delivery that contained twenty of his favorite items. | Continue reading


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Disabled Artist Creates Wonderfully Detailed Human Sculptures Out of Recycled Cardboard

Wired visited disabled artist James Lake to learn more about how he creates human sculptures out of different types of recycled cardboard. | Continue reading


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Haynes Owners’ Workshop Manuals For the Millenium Falcon, Rebel Starfighter, and TIE Fighter

Haynes Owners' Workshop Manuals for Star Wars vehicles including Millennium Falcon, Rebel Starfighters, and TIE Fighters. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 2 years ago

Wonderfully Instructive Origami Video Tutorials

Brazilian artist Jo Nakashima offers wonderfully instructive tutorials on the art of origami that show how to strategically fold paper. | Continue reading


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An Intricate Metal Cast Bolt With a Threaded Maze

Seth Robinson 3D printed a giant bolt with an intricate thread maze that he cast in molten metal to bring it to shiny life. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 2 years ago

The Oregon Zoo Releases Hundreds of Endangered Silverspot Caterpillars Back Into the Wild

The Oregon Zoo released hundreds of Oregon Silverspot caterpillars back into the wild as part of a specific conservation project. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 2 years ago

FedEx Driver Stops to Dunk a Single Hoop With Teen Playing Basketball By Himself

A FedEx driver stopped his truck and ran over to a house to dunk a single hoop with a teenager who was playing basketball by himself. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 2 years ago

Brooklyn Street Performer Rides Bicycle While Balancing a Full Trash Can on His Head

A street performer in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn quite remarkably balanced a full trash can on top of his head as he a bicycle down the street. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 2 years ago

Rob Scallon Plays a Traditional 21-String Gambian Kora

Rob Scallon visited with New York City musician Salieu Suso to learn more about the 21-string Gambian Kora that Suso plays. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 2 years ago

Man Wears a Custom Suit That Holds All the Trash He Generated Over the Course of One Month

Rob Greenfield made a statement about the amount of individual trash generated daily by wearing a custom suit that holds one month of his own garbage. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 2 years ago

Cleverly Designed Translucent Blue Tissue Box That Turns a Tissue Into a Floating Iceberg

mitiruxxx created a cleverly designed translucent blue tissue box that makes the tissue look like an iceberg jutting out of the water. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 2 years ago

An Ancient Indian Temple With 56 Musical Pillars That Play Individual Notes When Struck

Sunil Krishnan captured wonderful footage of the ancient Vittala Temple with 56 musical pillars that play different notes when struck. | Continue reading


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The Last Public Pay Phone in New York City Is Removed From a Sidewalk in Times Square

The last free-standing public payphone in New York City was removed from a Times Square sidewalk at 7:00 AM on May 23, 2022. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 2 years ago

Helpful Suggestions For Dealing With Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

The School of Life explains how best to help someone who is in the psychological grip of obsessive compulsive disorder. | Continue reading


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A Nostalgic Compilation of Dial-Up Modem Sounds

Retrocet put together a nostalgic compilation of common dial-up modem sounds ranging in speed from 300 bps to 56K. | Continue reading


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Comedian Talks About the Joys of Having a Baby With Another Version of Herself

Comedian Julie Nolke engaged in a conversation with another version of herself (now named Lisa) about Lisa's new baby | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 2 years ago

A Gorgeous Multi-Layered Live Acoustic Guitar Cover of the Theme From ‘Star Wars’

The incredibly talented guitar quartet 40 Fingers performed a gorgeous acoustic cover of the iconic Star Wars Theme inside an empty theater. | Continue reading


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Smashing Pumpkins Plays Live on Illinois Cable Access Show ‘Pulse Basement Jam’ in 1988

Smashing Pumpkins performed on a 1988 episode of the Roselle, Illinois cable access show "Pulse" during its "Basement Jam" segment. | Continue reading


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Woman Overcomes Arachnophobia By Caring for an Adorable Asiatic Wall Jumping Spider

Emily Hess shared how she overcame a severe case of arachnophobia by caring for an elder pet Asiatic jumping spider named Gretel. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 2 years ago

Baby Foxes Adorably Investigate a GoPro

Turiecfoto captured the adorable sight of baby foxes investigating a GoPro he set in a meadow in the Turkish hills. | Continue reading


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