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Video: San Francisco Circa 1905

I love watching old footage like this. Some of the trams in the video are probably still in use today.

Video: CCTV Footage of Meteor Shower in South Africa

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Video: 100-Year-Old BIke vs Tour de France Bike

A Swiss man on a 100-year-old Swiss army bike beats Tour de France 2 stage winner Jens Voigt on his 2009 high tech bike.

Domo Invades 7-Eleven Stores

Domo, the Japanese stop-action character and meme celebrity, is invading 7-11 stores in the US. Domu will be featured on everything imaginable in the store and merchandise will also be available. You can view lots of photos here.

Video: How Water Acts In Space

Make sure you watch the alka seltzer experiment at the end.

Video: 8-Bit Trip

"1500 hours of moving legobricks and take photos of them."

Video: Venezuela's "Continuous" Lightning Storm

For 140 to 160 nights out of the year, for 10 hours at a time, the sky above the river is pierced by almost constant lightning, producing as many as 280 strikes per hour. Known as the "Relampago del Catatumbo," this lightning storm has been raging, on and off, for as long a people can remember.

You can read more about this amazing phenomenon over at Atlas Obscura. [via]

Video: Mobile Stripper Pole

Video: Kid Catches 2 Foul Balls in One At Bat

I think the title's right. That's what it said on YouTube.

Video: Very Close Lightning Strike

Video: Incredible Hole-In-One

He earned a $50,000 BMW Z4 Roadster for the shot.

Video: Man Rides A Scooter With A Watermelon On His Head

I think he's done this before.

Video: Amazing Laser Magic

Video: The World's Fastest.........Everything

US Navy F-18 Streaks Past Apartment Block

This is the moment a US Navy pilot gave a shocked resident a very close look at his F-18.

The jet streaked past an apartment block on the banks of the Detroit River at the weekend.It was part of a tactical demonstration fly-past to open a speedboat race in the North American city. [via]

Video: Time-Lapse Video Of A Fighter Jet Being Built

Video: Tampons With Parachutes Dropped on Dutch Beaches

Dutch tampon manufacturer Libresse has dropped thousands of tampons with mini parachutes on 6 Dutch beaches. The PR stunt is trying to convince women that tampons are a "must have" in their beach bag. [via]

Video: Airplane Toilet Paper Trick

Video: Pilot Performs Textbook Emergency Landing

Video: 5,000 KM Beard Growth

A well made time-lapse video of a man growing a beard whilst trekking across China.

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Bike Tricks - 1899 Style

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Video: Awesome Footage from Inside One Of The Blue Angels

Video: Tower Demolition

There's nothing like a good demolition.

Video: Monster Truck Rally Shot in Tilt Shift Animation

Video: Giant Yarn Ball Rolls Through San Francisco

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Video: Ames' Window

This perspective window by Adelbert Ames upsets size-shape scaling to produce remarkable effects. [via]

Video: Inspired Bicycles - Danny MacAskill

"Filmed over the period of a few months in and around Edinburgh by Dave Sowerby, this video of Inspired Bicycles team rider Danny MacAskill features probably the best collection of street/street trials riding ever seen."

Video: MiG-25 Cockpit View From 65000 Feet

Gorgeous views from a MiG-25 flying at 65,000ft.

Video: Japanese Bowling Trick

Good but he missed a ton of pins to the left.

Video: 'Eyes Right' For Little Belgian Boy Saluting Canadian Troops

This boy will treasure this video for a very long time. I don't know a great deal about the military but I think this maneuver is usually performed for dignitaries or high ranking officers. [via]

Video: Real Good Beatboxer

Video: Amazing Sign Spinner

Guiness World Record: Longest Distance Throwing A Human

I guess the saying about not trusting someone as far as you can throw them doesn't count with this guy.

Video: Mugging Gone Wrong

Apparently the mugger got 10 years, and the victim got the satisfaction of getting his own back, and getting his wallet back.

Video: Flash Mob Dancers At London Liverpool Street Station

Inspired by the T-Mobile advert where 400 actors were filmed dancing at Liverpool Street station in Janaury, Well over 10,000 people converged at 7pm last Friday for a silent disco. The flash mob caused police to close the station for around 90 minutes due to fears of overcrowding.

Video: Mountain Roller Coaster

A very cool mountain roller coaster which I think is in Germany. [via]

Video: Cadburys Dairy Milk Advert - Moving Eyebrows

Tonight was the first time that I had seen the latest advert for Cadbury's Dairy Milk and it's as good as the others.

Video: Giant Snowball

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Video: Cornstarch Monster on a Speaker

I'm not sure how you discover something like this.

Video: Marble Madness In Less Than 3 Minutes

This guy spends 2m35s completing Marble Madness but you just know that he spent years on that machine. [via]

Video: People Walk Alongside An Icebreaker

Video: Putting Metal In An MRI Scanner

Video: Dead-Stick Takeoff and Landing

I've never heard of a dead-stick takeoff (probably because I'm not a pilot) but here is a good example of one. The pilot rolls pushes his plane off a 1500ft cliff before gliding for two miles.

Video: 'Happy' Girl Streaks At Lithuanian Basketball Game

Apparently she did it because 'she was happy'. (NSFW)

Video: Pilot Lands Plane On 2 Wheels

This pilot managed to land that plane better than some do with 3 wheels.

Video: Two Punch Knockout

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A boxer demonstrates how to knock someone out in style.

Video: Time Lapse Of Boeing 720b Demolition

What a fun job!

Video: 8 Foot Alien CCTV Prank Generates Immediate Police Response

"To mark the 10th anniversary of CCTV (closed-circuit television) cameras in the UK, which are now ubiquitous, music producer James Sanger staged a prank where he sent an 8 foot alien out to walk around Christchurch Road in Bournemouth, leading to the immediate arrival of 3 police cars." [via]

Video: Wario Destroys YouTube

This is a really well made viral ad for a new Wii game. [via]

Video: Burning Mercury Thiocyanate

Apparently used to be used in pyrotechnics for the long snake-like ash Pharaoh's Serpent/Black Snake but has been replaced with the safer Sodium Bicarbonate. [via]