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Watch a Spider Spin Its Intricate Web and Then Use It to Catch Prey

Here’s time lapse footage of a garden orb spider building out its web. It’s really interesting to see the process from the start when it seems like a few random strands are connected to each other and especially cool to see it at the end when it’s all completed and ready to catch its first … Continued

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Making Shiny Balls of Mud Is a Surprisingly Beautiful Art Form

Mix a little dirt and mud, shape it with your hands, and out pops a beautiful shiny mud ball that’s actually the Japanese art of Hikaru Dorodango. It takes so much more work than that, of course, but it really looks like a person is just (skillfully) playing with mud. And then you see the … Continued

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This Drone Video That Takes You All Around the World Is Truly Gorgeous

Some days, you just need a reminder on how truly beautiful this world of ours is. Today is your lucky day. Christian Grewe’s AIRTime, filmed using a DJI Phantom 3, gives an aerial world tour that spans from Dubai to Hawaii to Hong Kong to Europe and South Asia and more. It is totally gorgeous … Continued

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The Movie References Quentin Tarantino Used in The Hateful Eight

Quentin Tarantino is a master filmmaker who loves to cite old movies in his work and even reference his own work in his films, it’s a wonderful cycle that adds another layer inside a movie for film buffs to appreciate. Here are those references he made in his latest movie, The Hateful Eight. SPLOID is … Continued

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The Underneath View of Animals on Glass Is Pretty Cute

Here’s a perspective you rarely get to see: the underside of animal as they stand and walk and just generally be cute all around. Wakaleo filmed various animals underneath a glass sheet and we get to see how they move around. It actually makes for a really cool view. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow … Continued

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How Do Vending Machines Tell the Difference Between Fake Coins and Real Coins?

One of my life dreams as a child was to be able to fool a vending machine with quarter-like objects. I mean, how smart could a vending machine be, right? Wrong. More like how dumb a kid I was. Vending machines use light sensors to measure the size of a coin and electromagnets to detect … Continued

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Forging a Bottle Opener from a Metal Plate

To turn a plate of metal into something you can actually use takes so many different tools and so much time to do. Even for something as simple as a bottle opener, you need to figure out a way to pierce the metal, to hammer the hole wider, to bend it to create a usable … Continued

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Check Out 20 Popular Movies Before and After Visual Effects Were Added

It’s absolutely no surprise that blockbuster movies rely so heavily on special effects and CG all the time now. When the effects are good, it just makes more sense for the fictional world they are building and the shots they are making. But it will forever be hilarious to see the actors act out in … Continued

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All the Largest Nuclear Explosions in History

Nuclear bombs are the deadliest weapons we’ve ever created because of the destruction they’ve caused to human life and the damage they leave with radiation and the sheer magnitude of their explosions. The arms race led to more and more testing of bigger and bigger bombs. Here are the largest nuclear explosions in history. SPLOID … Continued

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5 Crazy Theories That Actually Turned Out to Be True

People are generally wrong. So don’t be afraid to stand out on your own with your own crazy theory on how this here world and the universe around us exists (let’s not get too conspiracy crazy though). Here are 5 ideas that were totally crazy at the time but actually turned out to be right. … Continued

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Cute Animation Explains Newton’s Laws of Motion

Do you remember Newton’s laws of motion? Something something apple, right? No! Something something force equals mass times acceleration? That’s more like it. That’s only the second law, there are two others laws of motion that you’ll find out in the video below. The animation to Mars is neat enough to watch even if you … Continued

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Here Are Nike’s First Power Lacing Shoes

Ever since Back to the Future II, people have wanted shoes with power laces. Well, it’s happened. Nike has finally put power lacing in real shoes. In real life. As in, you’ll actually be able to buy them. And you’ll never have to tie a shoelace again. The Nike HyperAdapt 1.0 will be the first … Continued

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Smart Video Reveals How Antibiotics May Have Created a Dangerous Apocalyptic Scenario

Kurzgesagt details the “antibiotic apocalypse” in their latest video and it’s a doozy. Basically, our willy nilly use of antibiotics to treat illness and our irresponsible antibiotic use in animals have created bacteria that have become superbugs that are now immune to those antibiotics and could lead to a pandemic. Luckily, it’s not all bad! … Continued

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This Guy Can Solve 3 Different Rubik’s Cube While Juggling Them at the Same Time

While most people in this world struggle to juggle and other people in this world don’t like the brain pruning effect of a Rubik’s Cube, Rubocubo is totally different: he can juggle three different Rubik’s Cubes while solving all of them in less than 15 seconds. It’s an awesome trick that combines two of the … Continued

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Watch the Explosion That Happens When You Put This Piece of Metal in Water

Sodium, you know what that is. Water, you know what that is. Now watch one of the oldest chemistry class tricks, the combination of two things you already know for an explosion you might have forgotten: if you throw sodium metal into water, it basically sparks up real big and blows up nicely. Here’s Crazy … Continued

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Seeing Tomatoes Get Unsliced Is Really Bizarre

It has all the makings of those ASMR triggering videos we all love to feel on our scalp and spine but it’s also a little bit unsettling too since the whole video moves in reverse. We’re not watching a tomato get chopped up but rather seeing it get unsliced and that reversal of action throws … Continued

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Beyond Gorgeous Video Shows the Making of a Damascus Steel Sword

Turn it up to 8K if you can (you can’t), because this truly awesome video of master bladesmith Tony Swatton working on a Roman Gladius Sword made from damascus steel is a treat to watch. Damascus steel is basically art in a material as the layers get built, this sword is especially awesome because it … Continued

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Watch Winter Turn into Spring in These Beautiful Photos

Fall is probably the most picturesque season but there’s always something beautiful about seeing the stillness of winter give way to the color of spring. Here’s a collection of photographs from photographer Jim Brandenburg that documents the transformation from winter to spring. According to National Geographic, Brandenburg took a photo everyday in Minnesota from the … Continued

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How Does the Cue Ball Always Come Out of the Pool Table?

It’s magnets! Seriously. There’s a layer of iron underneath the cue ball that gets nudged and pulled by a strong magnet inside the pool table so that it gets put on a completely different track from the rest of the balls in pool. That track is the one that spits out the cue ball. The … Continued

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Transforming a Hammer Head into an Axe

While most people see a hammer and just see a hammer, The Art of Weapons sees the potential to turn the brute hardened steel into an axe. Basically, the head of the hammer turned into the axe blade and the claw side of the hammer got forged together to form one spike. The whole process … Continued