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There is an inland island in Canada that is larger in area than the lake in which it is situated
[read more: bit.ly/2zBqpLJ]
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Located in the town of Caviahue, Argentina, Salto del Agrio is a 60 meter high waterfall, which drops to a small green pool surrounded by yellow and red basaltic rocks
[read more: buff.ly/3TyAiSg]
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What does a baby rhino sound like? Certainly not anything like we thought they would. If we had to describe their sound, it would probably be a cross between dolphins and when you pinch the neck of a balloon to let the air out [full video by DoctorDuni: buff.ly/2p2JB4t]
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What does the Sun do at the poles? The sun circles around the horizon in 24h: here is a time-lapse of nearly 5 days from March 08 to 13, 2017 filmed at the South Pole
[source of the clip, Robert Schwarz: ow.ly/UUoB30ngRw9]
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Filmed at 700fps, we notice the iris' fluids inertia cause the iris to wiggle after the eyeball has stopped moving
[📹 The Slow Mo Guys: buff.ly/2tAxKuZ]
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This classic video show a LEGO TECHNIC functional Model of a Bridge Girder machine SLJ 90032 Wowjoint
[full video, Wolf Zipp: buff.ly/3eCoy1Z]
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Fletcher Capstan Table is a round table which, when rotated at its outer perimeter, doubles its seating capacity and remains truly circular [read more: fletchertables.com]
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There are many ways to get across the point of distortion in the Mercator map. Here's a planisphere indicating a distance across Africa and another distance across Russia and things don't add up [source, read more: buff.ly/3HGVLme]
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Icelandic black sand is found on beaches near a volcano and consists of tiny fragments of basalt
[read more: buff.ly/3wLzKhQ]
[📹 Lorenz Weisse: buff.ly/3wUa18q]
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The story of Dr. Khurshid Guru, who created a nebulizer on an Air Canada flight, using a water bottle, a cup, oxygen, and an adult inhaler to help an asthmatic toddler breath [read more: ow.ly/UVYa30nc83t]
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A vertical wind tunnel (VWT) is a wind tunnel that moves air up in a vertical column. Its vertical orientation enables gravity to be countered by drag instead of lift, as experienced by a skydiver at terminal velocity.
[📹 buff.ly/3uk8iY7]
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On every equinox day, March 21 and September 22, everyone visiting the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in the capital city of Kerala, will see the setting sun aligning through each of the window openings in almost five-minute intervals [read more: buff.ly/3lqryNY]
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This is a Gaboon Viper. Since its venom glands are enormous, each bite produces the second-largest quantity of venom of any venomous snake. The clip shows its rectilinear locomotion mode
[📹 Ghostpenguin's Reptile Resort: buff.ly/3fcba53]
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One of the expressive styles of artist David Popa is creating portraits on small ice floats using only charcoal and water
[read more: davidpopaart.com]
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The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake triggered a tsunami wave that reached heights of up to 40.5 meters, traveling at sea at a maximum speed of 700 km/h. This video shows its devastating speed and power
[read more: buff.ly/2vKev0C]
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Alsomitra macrocarpa has seeds which use paper-thin wings to disperse like giant gliders. The seeds, which are produced by a football-sized pod, can glide hundreds of metres across the forest [read more: buff.ly/2xzxEqt] [full video: buff.ly/2EDymnV]
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This variety of Orchid's flowers (Dracula Simia) strongly resemble monkey's faces
[read more: buff.ly/3YbbnaG]
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In 2011, Japanese telecom company Docomo created one of the most beautiful adverts we've ever seen. A giant xylophone in Kyushu playing Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" with a wooden ball rolling down its keys [full video, HD: buff.ly/2WuiMTQ]
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Lobsters' color comes from astaxanthin, which binds to other proteins. Depending on those bonds, the shell gets a color. Blue lobster are extremely rare, with in about 100 million
[read more: buff.ly/3U7Vsb3]
[📹 : buff.ly/2LEgCdo]
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Haruki Nakamura brings his artwork to life through the time-honored tradition of paper crafting. Using paper engineering, he constructs whimsical creatures and dolls that move in surprising ways
[read more: buff.ly/2F3mkFj]
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This is the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai like you’ve never seen it before.
Photographer André Larsen used an FPV racing drone to fly from the top of the Burj Khalifa building to the bottom
[📹 HD: buff.ly/3QXVPSF]
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Deniz Sağdıç turns what we consider waste into human portraits, drawing attention to pollution and showing that even the simplest materials can be used to produce an artwork, creating sustainable art
Instagram: buff.ly/3ArRXmI
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This drawing ruler allows a multifunctional design through a series of shape and a rotating protractor [read more: buff.ly/3JYlOaM]
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Japanese multiplication
[how it woorks: buff.ly/3gRwcHx]
[📹 mathswithmisschang: buff.ly/3FwZTGb]
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How high you would jump on other planets or moons?
This video shows the average jump height of a person on Earth and its equivalent in other worlds of the Solar System
[full video, HD, MetaBallStudios: buff.ly/3Jzo5sW]
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