“We went to Warsaw, Poland and ate a bunch of their delicious holy pastries of magic known as Perogies. I kill these huge suckers in under 4 minutes!” — furiouspete123

“First bikes, and then guns! Prepare for the apocalypse!” — supermonkiey

“This is what living in Hawaii is all about.” — ericusnavy

“He’s not out of diapers yet, but a Calgary toddler has become the youngest person in Canada to join the ranks of the international high-IQ society, Mensa. Meet Anthony Popa Urria. At two years and nine months, Anthony has a staggeringly high IQ score of 154, just a few points shy of the estimated IQs of Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. While most of his peers are singing Itsy Bitsy Spider and drawing crayon scribbles, this bright toddler spends his time reciting the alphabet backward and forward, counting to 1,000, and listing the planets in the solar system, days in a week, months in a year and the seasons. He also speaks three languages, can read full sentences in books he has never seen before, can write his own name and many other words, and can solve complex 70-piece puzzles, among his vast skills… Across Canada, there are only seven other members of Mensa aged 10 or younger.” w/ photos

“The Earthquake-Proof Table is designed for a range of building types and collapse scenarios. It provides a comprehensive solution by creating both covering protection and passageways for rescue team accessibility. To date, the patent pending design has successfully withstood a series of rigorous vertical impact tests and is currently awaiting official approval of the world leading Structural Engineering department of Padua University, Italy. In addition to various weight and ceiling collapse patterns, the Earthquake-Proof Table addresses the financial limitations of the schools that need it through economical, yet responsible production methods and inexpensive materials.”

“Ok kids, let’s go. We can’t be late for your jobs at the Nike factory!” — bottleneck69

“Wooah, that guy went clutch.” — koolgordon

“Geologists in Russia’s volatile Chechnya region have discovered what they believe to be fossilized dinosaur eggs laid by one of the huge extinct reptiles that roamed the Earth more than 60million years ago. ‘We’ve found about 40 eggs so far, the exact number has not been established,’ said Said-Emin Dzhabrailov, a geologist at the Chechen State University. ‘There could be many more lying under the ground.’ The find was uncovered when a construction crew was blasting through a hillside to build a road near the region’s border with former Soviet Georgia in the Caucasus Mountains.” w/ photos

“God. Showed. Up.” — taleydaley2012

“This guy has real-life superhero potential.” — ceonotaph

“A new era in computing that will see machines perform at least 1,000 times faster than today’s most powerful supercomputers is almost upon us. By the end of the decade, exaFLOP computers are predicted to go online heralding a new chapter in scientific discovery. The United States, China, Japan, the European Union and Russia are all investing millions of dollars in supercomputer research. In February, the EU announced it was doubling investment in research to $1.6 billion. Computer scientists measure a supercomputer’s performance in FLOPS, an acronym for Floating Point Operations per Second, while ‘exa’ is a metric prefix which stands for quintillion (or a billion billion). An exascale computer could perform approximately as many operations per second as 50 million laptops.” w/ photos

“They say silence is golden – but there’s a room in the U.S that’s so quiet it becomes unbearable after a short time. The longest that anyone has survived in the ‘anechoic chamber’ at Orfield Laboratories in South Minneapolis is just 45 minutes. It’s 99.99 per cent sound absorbent and holds the Guinness World Record for the world’s quietest place, but stay there too long and you may start hallucinating. It achieves its ultra-quietness by virtue of 3.3-foot-thick fiberglass acoustic wedges, double walls of insulated steel and foot-thick concrete.” w/ photos

“I would have gotten on top of that bus like a baus!” — Montisa2008

“12-year old Tom Schaar lands the first ever 1080 while skating the MegaRamp at Woodward West in Tehachapi, CA.” — redbull

“This is the incredible moment a racing driver broke a world record by hitting 257mph – in a modified Ford. Sean Kennedy, 29, smashed the existing record for acceleration over a mile-long stretch while driving a highly-tuned Ford GT in Texas. The daring motor sports enthusiast rocketed to an incredible 257mph in the humble car, which has been souped up with a 5.4-litre V8 engine and two massive turbo-chargers. Mr Kennedy went from a stationary position to an astonishing 200mph by the halfway mark, before setting the new ‘standing mile world’ by the end of the track.” w/ photos

“Check out this amazing one handed shot from Marcus Camby as he makes it in from full court but got off the shot just a second too late for it to count!” — NBA

“An electrical storm closed in around sunset, providing this surreal scene. I saw the light of the sky and wandered down to take a photo, but ended up staying for nearly 2 hours in the rain! Magical…” — technix32

“Filmed in 1927 at the Chiswick Baths in London, this quirky item shows an apparently 8ft tall woman. What seems to be more obvious is the extremely fat belly on her male friend! Her height should probably be taken with a pinch of salt as a lot of the supersize humans in the British Pathe archive often are given over inflated heights.” — britishpathe

“The most one finger push ups in 30 seconds was 41 and was achieved by Xie Guizhong on the set of Guinness World Records Special in Beijing, China.”

“After receiving a vision he believed came from the Holy Spirit, an Ethiopian weaver went to the mountains to carve entire churches from stone. He has carved four so far… all with basic tools.” — NatGeo

“A newly discovered 157-million-year-old salamander is the oldest of its kind and would’ve swum with the aquatic beasts of the Jurassic. The discovery supports the idea that this order diverged from other salamanders earlier than thought, the researchers said. Six specimens of this new species, now called Beiyanerpeton jianpingensis, were discovered in the Tiaojishan Formation, in Liaoning Province, China. Some other salamander specimens discovered in the area are quite a bit smaller than B. jianpingensis, suggesting they are either juveniles or a smaller species. The salamander’s scientific name comes from ‘beiyan,’ an ancient name for the area in which it was discovered, and ‘herpeton,’ the Greek word for creeping animal.” w/ photo

“An extinct primitive marine vertebrate had the sharpest dental structures ever known — with tips just one-twentieth of the width of a human hair, but able to apply pressures that could compete easily with those from human jaws. The razor-sharp teeth belonged to conodonts, jawless vertebrates that evolved some 500 million years ago in the Precambrian eon and went extinct during the Triassic period, around 200 million years ago. The creatures roamed the planet for longer than any other vertebrate so far –– and despite their lack of jaws, they were the first creatures to evolve teeth.” w/ photo

“Bet you’ve never seen someone carry 20 beers in one hand before! What’s the trick? Check it out for yourself!” — alparis008

“The coach seriously just had the WTF moment of his life.” — MTLRELLIK

“When you’re dangling by your fingertips more than 1,000ft up, the age-old advice is probably still the best: don’t look down. Unless, like daredevil climber Dave MacLeod, you want to stop and take in the view from the most dangerous cliff in Britain. Perched on a tiny ledge above the rocks and crashing surf below, he found time to admire the ‘breathtaking’ scenery from St John’s Head, Hoy, in the Orkneys – while dodging frequent dollops of foul-smelling seabird vomit from unfriendly fulmars. Dave became the first person to ever free-climb – using just his hands and feet with ropes only as a safety precaution – St John’s Head on the Isle of Hoy, Orkney, in Scotland.” w/ photos

“Pink diamonds are one of the most valuable jewels in the world – and now Rio Tinto miners in Australia have unearthed the biggest ever found in the country. The company’s Argyle mine, situated in the Kimberly region, produces a staggering 90 per cent of the world’s pink diamonds and is describing this example as ‘unprecedented’. It has named the 12.76-carat jewel the Argyle Pink Jubilee and the bookies believe it may fetch between $26-$33million at auction. ‘A diamond of this calibre is unprecedented – it has taken 26 years of Argyle production to unearth this stone, and we may never see one like this again,’ said Argyle Pink Diamonds Manager Josephine Johnson in a statement.” w/ photos

“With 47 great-grandchildren and six great-great grandchildren between them, two Scottish sisters, 102, have claimed a new world record as the oldest living twins on the planet. Edith Ritchie and Evelyn ‘Evie’ Middleton, who celebrated their birthday last November, have never left the UK and currently live together in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. When the pair were born in 1909 Edward VII was on the throne, the first game of rugby had just been played at Twickenham and the first British color film was being shown in London theaters. Edith claims the secret to a long life is, ‘simple living, hard work and a good husband.” w/ photos

“Each year the lakes of Kenya play host to one of the world’s largest populations of flamingos. For a short period the area around a group of lakes is awash with pink as millions of lesser flamingos fly in to breed and one of the world’s most spectacular displays takes place.” w/ photos

“In a world first, an elderly patient has had a 3D printer-created lower jaw surgically implanted with complete success. The titanium jaw was built by Belgian company LayerWise in collaboration with scientists from the University of Hasselt, based in the same country. The operation was carried out in the Netherlands last June to treat the woman’s osteomyelitis – bone infection – of almost the entire lower jawbone. However, only now are the details of the ground-breaking procedure emerging. The jaw was made using a high-precision laser, which fused together titanium powder layer by layer, without glue or binder liquid.” w/ photos

“I wonder how much stuff he can steal in a convenient store.” — 2Tudew