Jimmy Kimmel Challenges Parents to Turn Off the TV While Their Kids Are Playing Fortnite

Jimmy Kimmel issued a new #YouTubeChallenge to parents asking them to sneak up on their kids and turn off the television while they are playing Fortnite. | Continue reading


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A KFC Fire Log That Smells Like Fried Chicken

KFC has partnered with Enviro-Logs to create a fire log that smells like their signature fried chicken. Once the environmentally friendly, quick starting | Continue reading


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Super Slow Motion Footage Showing How Fast a Sheet of 5mm Tempered Glass Cracks When Agitated

Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy of the Slo Mo Guys wanted to find how fast a sheet of 5mm tempered glass would crack when agitated. They first started with a | Continue reading


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Last Thing a Christmas Ornament Sees Before It Dies

The last thing a Christmas ornament sees before it dies... via Miss Cellania | Continue reading


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How the Shazam App Recognizes Songs So Quickly

Brian McManus of Real Engineering takes a look at the technology behind song recognition app Shazam and how it reveals matching song information so | Continue reading


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A Remarkable Woman Who Offers the Free Use of Off-Road Wheelchairs for Everyone to Explore the Outdoors

A short documentary by TJ Cooney focuses on AARP Purpose Prize winner Monica Kamal Spaeni, a remarkable woman who lost the use of her legs due to a spinal | Continue reading


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A Giant Maine Coon Cat With Big Beautiful Fuzzy Paws

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lotus (@lotus_the_mainecoon) on Sep 2, 2018 at 11:33am PDT An absolutely gorgeous Maine coon cat named Lotus, | Continue reading


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A 1957 Film About How The Illuminating Company Made Living in Cleveland Better Than Anywhere Else

In 1957, the Cleveland Illuminating Company created a short film entitled "Power To Serve" in order to explain to the community how the electricity they | Continue reading


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Adorable 3D Sidewalk Chalk Characters That Cleverly Incorporate Surface Cracks, Flaws and Interruptions

View this post on Instagram No haircut, no problems. #streetart #sidewalkchalk #environmentalart #anamorphosis #teen #puffyvest #weedhead A post shared by | Continue reading


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A Man Questions His Purpose as an Artist Almost Three Years After Preparing Two Slices of Life Changing Toast

The 2016 pseudo documentary "The Maker", a short film by by Patrick Kehoe and Andy Corbett featured a man who was deeply passionate making toast. In the | Continue reading


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A Stunning Timelapse Capturing the Exact Moment When Soap Bubbles Begin to Completely Freeze Over

In March 2013 and in January 2018, we wrote about Canadian photographer Don Komarechka and his incredible work capturing stunning macro photographs of | Continue reading


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A Gorgeous Horse With a Long Mane of Blonde Curls That Match Those on Her Beloved Human’s Head

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Naomi Beckers & Storm (@haflinger_storm_naomi) on Dec 8, 2018 at 12:34pm PST An absolutely gorgeous | Continue reading


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A Guided Tour Around the Historic Gates of London

Native Londoner Matt Brown of Londonist Ltd offers a really helpful, guided tour around the historic gates of London. As he reaches each gate, Brown | Continue reading


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Analyzing the Cleverly Contradictory Wordplay in Emily Dickinson’s Poem ‘Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant’

After a disarming false start, the wonderfully informative video blogger and web producer Evan Puschak aka The Nerdwriter digs deeply into the Emily | Continue reading


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A Haunting Piano Cover of Pink Floyd’s ‘Comfortably Numb’ Captured in Dramatic Black and White Video

Australian pianist Josh Cohen performed a gorgeously haunting piano cover of the iconic Pink Floyd song "Comfortably Numb" with exquisite grace. Cohen | Continue reading


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A Boy Builds a Lemonade Stand to Fund Future Trips on a Spaceship in the Animated Short ‘Coin Operated’

"Coin Operated" by Nicholas Arioli is an award-winning bittersweet animated short about a little boy who wants to go to the moon. After discovering a | Continue reading


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Drone Footage of Playful Pod of Orcas Swimming Alongside a Brave Woman at a New Zealand Beach

While visiting the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand, Australian surf photographer Dylan Brayshaw flew his drone over the water and captured the | Continue reading


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Gorgeous Timelapses of Flowers Quickly Blooming

Slovakian filmmaker Majo Chudý has captured in two different videos, the gorgeous sight of different flowers blooming in gorgeous timelapse photography. | Continue reading


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A Persistent Little Girl Tries to Teach Herself to Dive by Copying a Snobbish But Talented Diver in ‘Belly Flop’

"Belly Flop" is an award-winning short film by Jeremy Collins and Kelly Dillon of Triggerfish Animation Studios that features an adorably persistent | Continue reading


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Composer Who Scored Coen Brothers Film ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ Briefly Explains the Soundtrack

In a brief but informative clip from behind-the-scenes of the Coen Brothers Netflix film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, score composer Carter Burwell | Continue reading


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A Powerful Netflix Film About Stanislaw Szukalski, A Brilliant But Obscure Sculptor & Self-Proclaimed Genius

I thought he was the greatest. Why was he left behind? The Leonardo DiCaprio documentary Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski, which is based upon | Continue reading


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How Modern Society Views the Concept of Luck

The School of Life offers an insightful look at the way modern society perceives luck, particularly noting how luck is really the antithesis of | Continue reading


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A Beautiful Map Featuring Every River Basin in the World Highlighted In Bright Rainbow Colors

In 2016 we posted about a beautiful series of color coded maps of the river basins around the world created by Hungarian cartographer Robert Szucs. Since | Continue reading


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I Am Grout

This is a really grout pun... via reddit | Continue reading


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A Helpful Owl Politely Knocks on a Window to Deliver a Letter to the Human Inside the House

A little owl politely knocked on the window and delivered a letter to the resident inside the house. The helpful strigidae was first a bit reluctant to | Continue reading


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How Captain America Embodies the Spirit of the United States’ Best Self Due to an Unbending Moral Code

In a valorous episode of the incredibly insightful video series ScreenPrism, narrators Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough talk about how the character | Continue reading


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A Determined Crocheted Dinosaur Unravels Himself to Save the Love of Its Life From Drowning in a Well

In the short animation "Lost and Found" by Australian filmmaker Goldy, a crocheted green dinosaur woke up from a good night's sleep and blew a kiss to its | Continue reading


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Freddie Mercury Soundalike Marc Martel Performs an Amazing Cover of ‘We Are the Champions’ on Piano

Musician Marc Martel, whose voice is so highly reminiscent of the legendary Freddie Mercury that his vocals were featured as Mercury's in the biopic | Continue reading


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A Mesmerizing Mashup of 2018 Movie Trailers

Video editor Louis Plamondon aka Sleepy Skunk has released his annual movie trailer mashup for the year 2018. This year's mashup is incredibly seamless | Continue reading


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The Story of How Three Astronauts Aboard Apollo 8 Went ‘Round the Moon and Back’ on Christmas 1968

In honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 8 launch, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine shares the story of this historic mission, which took | Continue reading


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Touching Film About a Talented But Anxious Man Who Creates Tiny Stage Performances With Action Figures

"David's Voice" by Chad Carbone and Graham Hill, is a truly touching, thought provoking short film about David Worobec, a classically trained vocalist | Continue reading


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Atlanta Suburb With Miles of Asphalt Paths Encourages Use of Golf Carts as a Primary Means of Transportation

The always traveling Tom Scott visited with Vanessa Fleisch, the proud mayor of Peachtree City, Georgia. Peachtree City is a planned community 20 minutes | Continue reading


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The New York Times Puzzle Expert Demonstrates the Deliberate Process Behind Creating Crossword Puzzles

In the third episode of Wired Masterminds, puzzle expert (cruciverbalist) and magician David Kwong explains and demonstrates the deliberate process that | Continue reading


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The NASA Voyager 2 Probe Exits the Heliosphere to Enter Interstellar Space 11 Billion Miles From Earth

On August 20, 1977, the NASA Voyager 2 Probe launched into space to study other planets. After passing through the orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and | Continue reading


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Friendly Squirrel Jumps Onto an Unsuspecting UPS Driver in the Doorway Who Was Delivering a Package

While making a delivery to the Chicago home of Amanda Atkins, an unsuspecting UPS driver named Oscar Luciano was happily dancing in place when a friendly | Continue reading


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Christmas Hypocrisy: Dog Edition

Life is not fair...when you're a dog. via reddit | Continue reading


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Christmas Drinking Game

Hey look, someone on TV is wearing a Santa hat, drink! via reddit | Continue reading


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Christmas in Los Angeles Sucks

Gus Johnson sings a heart-wrenching song about why Christmas in Los Angeles sucks. | Continue reading


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A Badass One Man Ska Cover of ‘Linus & Lucy’

In celebration of the 2018 holiday season, the very talented multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Hunter of Skatune Network performed a badass cover of the Vince | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Musician in Toe Socks Plays a Walking Bass Line With His Feet While Playing a Mean Guitar With His Hands

Musician Davidlap who, like bassist Davie504 asks his fans to challenge him through social media and like Rob Scallon enjoys finding unusual ways to play | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Soothing Cover of the Queen Song ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Gently Played on a Four Person Marimba

In this plentiful season of "Bohemian Rhapsody" covers, musician Michael Charles Smith and three students from the Marimba Lab after school program at | Continue reading


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Lamp Kits That Fold Into Geometric Papercraft Animals

View this post on Instagram A post shared by OWL paperlamps (@owlpaperlamps) on Jun 28, 2017 at 4:09am PDT Owl Paperlamps, based out of Lisbon, Portugal, | Continue reading


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An Amazing Robot Powered by Electrical Signals Generated From a House Plant Reacting to Light

Researchers Harpreet Sareen and Pattie Maes of the MIT Media Lab has created Elowan, an incredible cybernetic robot that is powered by bio-electrical | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Ray Liotta’s Chantix Commercial Cleverly Recut With Numerous Scenes From His Role in ‘Goodfellas’

Video editor Joseph Lindquist quite cleverly recut the Chantix commercial that features actor Ray Liotta talking about how he quit smoking and merged it | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Brave Dog Who Waited at Site of Home Burned During California Wildfire Reunites With His Beloved Humans

An Anatolian shepherd named Madison faithfully waited at the site of his former Paradise, California home for his human Andrea Gaylord to come back. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Screenwriters Share Their Favorite Movie Lines

Renowned film writers such as Bryan Woods and Scott Beck from A Quiet Place, Ashleigh Powell of The Nutcracker and The Four Realms, Micah Fitzerman Blue | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

A Festive Chanukah-Themed A Cappella Adaptation of Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Performed In Its Entirety

Jewish A Capella group six13, who previously musically celebrated the overlap of Thanksgiving with Chanukah in 2013, sang a festive a cappella adaptation | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Elon Musk Challenges Mark Zuckerberg in a Silicon Valley Tech Billionaire Style Epic Rap Battle of History

Peter Shukoff (Nice Peter) and Lloyd Ahlquist (EpicLLOYD) of Epic Rap Battles of History hilariously put on their best Silicon Valley tech-bro faces in a | Continue reading


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