Have you noticed this trend in YouTube? You watch a video on YouTube. Maybe it’s a minute, maybe it’s two. Maybe you laughed, maybe you didn’t. But then there are 5 minutes of additional post-video video that tells you to either subscribe to their other channel, add them on Facebook, tweet out a shoutout, click on their next video, see what they’re up to, shill for a sponsor and maybe even do all of the above.
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For every awesome life hack and tip you see on the Internet, there are thousands more that seem so complicated that they seem like they would make life harder. This parody video by KipKay—who actually comes up with awesome life hacks—hilariously pokes fun of those types of useless, ridiculous tips. Like using your sandals to hold your gun. Or a blowtorch for butter. It’s a fantastic commentary on lifehacking. [KipKay]
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Leave it to our friends at Devin Super Tramp to make walking on a tight rope over a canyon look like such a freaking party. To be completely accurate, the people on the rope are actually ‘highlining’ which is like tight roping without the pole. I’d probably pee my pants just from setting one toe on the line. Points for using a Drone to create the tight rope though. [Devin Super Tramp]
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Instagram! Back in your grandparent’s day, they used to call that a Polaroid camera. It’s funny because it’s sort of true, as demonstrated in this sketch from TeamCoco.
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Now I wish I had the genius and brass ones to think of this at a college party. The guys at RatedRR tapped a beer keg with detonation cord at varying lengths: 5 feet, 15 feet and 80 feet. As you can imagine, 80 feet of det cord is an amazing sight to see. The fireworks that an exploding keg can bring is only topped by slicing them in half. The footage was filmed at 51,000FPS so you can see it burn bright. [RatedRR]
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Sometimes I have an out of body moment where I see myself as an audience member and think about how dumb-looking the whole process is. You sit somewhere. You gape at something and don’t monitor your facial expression because you assume no one is observing you, and then often, you clap. It’s definitely a cultural tradition, but sometimes it just feels like an instinct. I sometimes find myself clapping at borderline inappropriate times seemingly because it’s a reaction my body is volunteering to perform.
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Traffic accidents are annoying enough on their own, but they’re even worse when they’re caused by a complete idiot. This Russian man takes a little initiative by dispensing some righteous road justice. Not to the driver that (almost) caused the mess, but to the driver’s cellphone.
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You know, it’s not that you wouldn’t miss having the Internet on your fingertips, text messages constantly flying through the sky and a camera to document every waking moment when you live without a phone. You totally would miss all that. But what would be even more annoying is how life would turn incredibly lonely without a phone because you start to notice how everyone else is so obsessed with theirs. Ban phones. [charstarlaneTV]
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Now this is fun. Kurzgesagt made a fantastic animation video detailing our solar system. Perfect for anyone who’s space curious (and that should be everyone), perfect to sit down and show your kid, perfect to learn everything about astronomy that you probably forgotten by now. It’s like taking a trip through a beautiful minimalist solar system to understand the universe around us. [Kurzgesagt]
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A group of researchers from the ecology department at the U.K.’s University of Exeter have been spending time studying how snails transmit a parasite called lungworm to dogs in Great Britain. Ah, my god, how boring. But they made something beautiful out of the project when they attached LEDs to the slow-moving slugs to track their movements at night.
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