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How to put on socks when you have a hard time reaching your feet [📹 Mister Odd and Miss Tree]

Pebble art [🪨 Jane Steven]

A Canadian man who had two rats as pets learned that letting them drive a miniature car reduced their levels of stress, so he gave them an electric miniature car and taught them to drive. [📹 emperorsofmischief]

Experts say we’ve officially lost the night sky. A one-hour stack of the night sky over Chile’s northern Atacama Desert shows how crowded low Earth orbit has become, even above one of the darkest sites used for professional astronomy. The European Southern Observatory released…

Chinese artist Wang Liang, known as the "Invisible Man," uses body painting to blend seamlessly into natural and urban environments, promoting environmental awareness through his striking camouflage art.

The greatest passport photo ever taken. Issued by the brief Ukrainian People’s Republic in 1918, the document features Makar Oliynychuk raising a glass of alcohol next to an open bottle. Relaxed early 20th-century rules allowed this casual style, contrasting sharply with today’s…

Cashmere goats take their name from the Himalayan region of Kashmir. [📹 Razzak Goat Ranch]

Across the country, vacant shopping centres are being turned into housing schemes. In some plans the food courts become shared dining rooms. Millions of square feet of retail floor space have sat unused since chains such as Sears and Target shrank. Developers in Canada are…

Founded 143 years Today (1883), the Nintendo Playing Card Company was a small business producing handmade hanafuda, Japanese playing cards. But during XX century, it would go on to radically revolutionize gaming around the world.

A gas station worker in Mexico lost his job for spending his hour off work washing stray dogs. But what seemed like an injustice ended up moving thousands of people: the images went viral, people responded with a boycott of the business, and the company ended up changing…

Does your dog bite? No, he blesses.

Cat remembers its deceased best friend from a portrait and tries to play as they once did

There's a duck slide every year at the South Carolina state fair, and the ducks love it [📹 missblanton]

The Vatican has set a firm moral boundary: damage to nature is now treated as a sin against creation and against the Creator. In September 2026 the Vatican published a long new text that widens Catholic teaching on duty toward the environment and treats grave harm to the natural…

Faraday's law states that a changing magnetic field creates an electric field. This fundamental principle explains how moving a magnet near a coil of wire induces an electromotive force, which can drive an electric current. [🎞️ eeanimation]

After traveling 9 years and covering 3 billion miles, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft got this shot. The icy mountains of Pluto.

The raging fury of Tiger Leaping Gorge (虎跳峡), a primary tributary of the upper Yangtze River, Yunnan, southwestern China.

When people find their doppelgangers in a museum

Sydney Swisher is a self-taught painter who transforms thrifted fabrics into textured, memory-filled oil artworks that blend pattern and image. [📹 sydswisher]

How to find the midpoint of a wooden board.

Brandon Alderson, from Sunderland, UK, was travelling to work when he noticed a man in distress in a layby. He pulled over and saw that the man was suffocating. Brandon performed the Heimlich manoeuvre six times and saved the man's life.

Human chain saved a dog and became a statue ❤️

Tribal Nations just won a major legal victory protecting the Great Lakes. The Michigan Supreme Court ruled that state regulators failed to comply with environmental law when they approved Enbridge Energy’s proposed Line 5 tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac in 2023. The…

Furry friends are patrolling the beaches of the Tirrenian sea all summer long, helping to keep swimmers safe. These specially trained dogs are experts at water rescue, and they can even tow multiple swimmers to safety at once. Dog lifeguards are typically large breeds of dogs,…

Ulexite stone is a mineral, it is not transparent but yet it projects an image of what ever is behind it onto its surface.

This is the Mega Marvin, an instrument that gets used to make sounds in horror movies. [📹 MetalWOlf]

Before Google, before wikis, before YouTube walkthroughs, a stuck gamer's only hope was dialing a phone number and asking a real human how to beat the dungeon. Back in 1987, Nintendo had a hotline to call ff you were stuck on a level.

CCTV caught these snow leopards being absolute cuddle bugs. 🎬 https://nitter.net/Rainmaker1973/status/2084293220658225261

Milky Way galaxy rising above Monument Valley.

This is the world’s oldest known intact shipwreck. A 2400 year old ancient Greek merchant ship sitting completely preserved over 2000 meters deep in the Black Sea, 43 nautical miles off the coast of Bulgaria, where the total lack of oxygen stopped it from decaying.

Japan ramen shops keep a solid steel egg in boiling water and drop it straight into your bowl if the broth cools to get instant heat.

Seahorses dance with their partners every morning to strengthen the bond between them.

Dave Scott performed one of the most legendary experiments: the Galilean 'hammer & feather' held on the Moon, 55 years ago Today

The 7 most famous laws in the world

275 years apart, the 4,500-year-old cypress tree, the oldest in China, on a painting by Emperor Qianglong of Qing Dynasty, and by a modern camera. [📍 Dengfeng city, Central China's Henan province]

Here's Pixie, a tiny baby koala at Australian Reptile Park trying to eat her first leaf.

This American tourist went through the insane roundabout of Swindon, England. 🎬 https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/2095098589324124547

Florida dumped 500,000 tons of recycled oyster shells into the gulf and revived a dying marine ecosystem. Natural restaurant waste may be the ultimate tool for reef restoration. Between 2007 and 2024, Florida embarked on an unusual ecological experiment. The state dumped over…

10,500 years old woven basket found in the Cave of Horrors, near the Dead Sea. It's the oldest intact woven basket ever found in the world.

"Allegro non molto" movement from Vivaldi's "Winter" performed by Latvian guitarist Laura Lāce, absolutely shredding the piece on a Harley Benton Fusion-III guitar. [🎸 laura6100youtube]

This speed reading training starts at 300 words per minute and end at 900 wpm. Can you read them all?

This teenage babysitter has the voice of a Disney princess

The pink pigeon from Mauritius bounced back from near extinction through careful conservation.

A 3D-printed rocket engine designed in just two weeks by AI [📹WorldUnseen]

Insane video shows devastating wildfires engulfing Spokane, Washington.

The blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) is a marine bird native to subtropical and tropical regions of the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is easily recognizable by its distinctive bright blue feet, coming from carotenoid pigments from its diet of fresh fish.

Honda leg exoskeleton for the elderly

Animaris Rex is an 18-metre-long walking 'beach animal' propelled by the wind, created by Theo Jansen as a fusion of art and engineering.