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How firefighters open locked doors in just one second

The Troxler effect Stare at the green circle, and the yellow will slowly disappear.

A compilation of magician tricks, exposed

Pretty intuitive animation explaining seasons, equinox, solstice, length of day and night. Today marks the autumn equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. [🎞️ German Valencia Garcia]

Invented by English cabinetmaker Robert Jupe and patented in 1835, the Jupe expanding table transforms with a clever mechanical design. A modern version sells for around $10,000.

Mike Tyson mastered the peek-a-boo stance

A series of interesting mechanical tricks.

This South Korean girl successfully performed the "Slickback" dance, which creates the illusion of walking in the air.

Diver scores a perfect 0.00 score during 2015 Asian Games

World Champion Axe Thrower Marcus Pehart in Freestyle Mode [🪓 Soulthrower]

The shortest flight on Earth.

No one would have believed him, if there hadn't been this video.

When you start a chess game, you have 20 possible moves available. After the first full move (White then Black), there are already over 400 possible positions. By the third move, that number jumps to around 8,900, and after the fourth it reaches nearly 200,000. By the time you get to move #40, the total number of possible games explodes to roughly 10⁴⁰, a number comparable to the total number of atoms in the observable universe.

When everything happens at the perfect moment