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Harvard kids singing Radiohead’s “Creep.” This could have gone very wrong. Then the lead singer opens his mouth. The Harvard Veritones have won at the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella — the real-world competition that inspired Pitch Perfect. Turn the sound on for this one.
Jake5,575,559 次观看 • 1 个月前
At 14, Zack MacLeod Pinsent burned his last pair of jeans after finding a box of his great-grandfather’s suits, and he hasn’t worn modern clothes since. What could have remained a teenage phase became his trade. He taught himself historical tailoring and built a business in Brighton, drafting patterns by hand and making clothes using techniques from the 1660s through the 1920s. His clients now range from museums to people who simply want garments cut the old way. Last year he hosted a Regency Ball at Brighton’s Royal Pavilion that sold out in under three minutes, drawing 150 people from seventeen countries to spend a night dressed for the world Zack decided at 14 he’d rather live in.
Jake3,487,721 次观看 • 2 个月前
More than 30 years ago, a Japanese diver working at an underwater shrine noticed the same wild fish kept coming around. He named her Yoriko. Then something happened that changed their relationship completely. She still lives wild in the ocean. He’s now in his 70s. And somehow, after all these years, she still knows when it’s him.
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They brought a 15-pound calf inside not knowing if he’d survive. Eventually, they had to explain to him that he wasn’t a dog and the couch wasn’t his. Zeke was born weeks early, too weak to stand or nurse. His family kept him warm and fed him around the clock. When he finally got walking, they bought him little shoes so he wouldn’t slip on the tile. Before long, he was playing with his best friend, a deaf dog, and curling up beside the woman who bottle-fed him to watch television. By 50 pounds, it was time to move outside. His family understood the arrangement was temporary. Zeke apparently hadn’t been consulted. Watch how he greets the woman who raised him when she comes home. How long would you have lasted before letting him back in?
Jake473,837 次观看 • 16 天前
A Japanese restaurant put “face slap” on the menu. 500 yen per slap. Up to five. Extra 100 yen to pick your server. It started free. Demand forced them to charge. Onlookers cheered. Women requested multiple rounds. The owner noticed. So he flipped it: female customers could pay to do the slapping. American spas charge $200 for a sound bath. Japan charged $3.50 to hit you. Both call it stress relief. One of them has a waitlist.
Jake6,115,898 次观看 • 7 个月前
In 2016, a dog slipped into a steep concrete channel in Kazakhstan and couldn’t get back out. A young man climbed down to save it and got stuck too. Strangers along the bank linked arms, made a human chain down the wall, and pulled them both out. Ten years later, Kazakhstan put the whole thing in bronze. But look at the last hand. It reaches past the railing so anyone walking by can grab it and become the next person in the chain. What a great idea for a monument.
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Guinness refused to put this man in the record book, and not because he fell short. They said riding a 35-foot unicycle with no harness and no safety belt was too dangerous to recognize. In 1981 Denis Frisoli was 21, from Edison, New Jersey, and he told the cameras he wanted to do something no one else in the world was doing. His brothers worried about him and helped him do it anyway. On national TV he threaded orange cones from three stories up on the Tower of Death. In June 1982, during a New York Cosmos game, he fell onto the AstroTurf at Giants Stadium and suffered a compound fracture of his right arm. Reports at the time said he was more worried about whether the unicycle survived. For the crowd it was a halftime act, but for his brothers it was someone they loved risking his life in a stunt they had helped make possible.
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In Oregon, all water is publicly owned. Rain that falls on your property. Snow that melts on your land. Gary Harrington didn’t accept that. He built three reservoirs on his 170-acre property in Eagle Point — collecting rainwater and snowmelt for personal use and wildfire protection. The state told him to drain the reservoirs. He refused. 30 days in jail. Nine misdemeanor convictions. $1,500 fine. His argument: it’s rain that fell on my land. Oregon’s argument: all water belongs to us. Oregon won.
Jake2,245,168 次观看 • 7 个月前
There's a pool in the Nevada desert where two young divers disappeared in 1965, and an earthquake more than 1,500 miles away can send its water sloshing into four-foot waves. It's called Devils Hole. From behind the fence it looks like a slot of blue water barely bigger than a backyard pool, but underneath it drops more than 500 feet into a cavern nobody has ever found the bottom of. Up near the sunlight, the last wild population of one of the rarest fish on Earth depends on a single shallow rock shelf to feed and spawn. Most of us will never stand at that fence, and that's the point. Some places are worth knowing about even when the best thing we can do for them is leave them alone.
Jake42,430 次观看 • 5 天前
They spent $130 million pushing deeper into digital and delivery. Same-store sales kept falling, and Yum ultimately agreed to sell Pizza Hut in deals valued at $2.7 billion. Meanwhile the franchisee who refused to gut his dining rooms is filling his. Tim Sparks converted 38 of his own Pizza Huts back to the red roof, Tiffany lamps, checkered tablecloths, and salad bar. People drive two and three hours just to sit in his booths and put their phones down. 155 of those Classics stand now, across dozens of states, quietly proving the old thing never needed a rebrand — just its roof back. Have Red Roof in your town yet?
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Orcas pulled up and surfed right alongside them. At Sunset Beach in Port Waikato, New Zealand, a pod of orcas joined two surfers in the lineup and rode the same waves just a few feet away. One guy ducked under a wave and came up face to face with a dorsal fin bigger than he was. They weren’t hunting anyone. They were just checking out something new in the water. There’s no record of a wild orca ever killing a human. Still doesn’t make it any less unnerving to look up and see one that close. Would you have kept surfing or paddled in? 🎥 Port Waikato, January 2025
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Martin Haseman lives on a homemade shantyboat on the Tennessee River. No landlord. No 30-year mortgage. His only rule: move the boat one mile every 14 days on TVA public water. The costs are surprisingly low: $400 to $800 a month, including food. Propane costs $15 to $40. Then there’s the line that stops people: gas for an entire year of required moves comes to about 3 gallons. A marina pass for showers and water runs $100, and even that’s optional. Many of us sign 30-year mortgages. He built a life around a boat and a compass. His biggest recurring expense isn’t a mortgage. It’s deciding where to anchor next. What’s the real number you pay every month just to stand still? Martin Haseman documents the life on YouTube — Another Time Another Place.
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🚨 Bill Clinton’s alleged son Danney Williams breaks his silence “I’ve been asking for a DNA test for decades,” Williams says — claiming Clinton ignored him while publicly doting on Chelsea. The resemblance? Uncomfortable. Judge the side-by-side photos for yourself. If the rumors are false, one test ends it. So why won’t he take it?
Jake2,398,528 次观看 • 10 个月前
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A moose nearly killed this guy. Sixteen years later, it somehow became a rap career. Sideneck says he was driving a Hyundai Tiburon through Ontario in 2010 when a moose came through the windshield. His neck was broken in three places, his right arm was paralyzed, and he was pronounced dead at the scene before being airlifted to a Toronto hospital. He survived, and somewhere along the way, the thing that could have defined the rest of his life became the thing he decided to own. He called himself Sideneck. More than 2.5 million TikTok followers later, he has turned that identity into an absurdly confident character, and now there's an actual song called "Bitch I'm Sideneck," complete with a Bentley, gold chain, ski masks, and every other ridiculous piece of the flex. What could have been the thing he spent the rest of his life trying not to be known for became the name millions of people know him by.
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A Lebanese-born man rammed a truck into Temple Israel in Ann Arbor on Wednesday. The FBI confirmed he specifically targeted the Jewish community. Lyle Culpepper, the city’s Chief Equity Officer, held a press conference. His opening line: “Please don’t use this as an excuse to be Islamophobic.” The suspect had not yet been identified as Muslim. #satire
Jake1,042,361 次观看 • 8 个月前
Rep. Tim Burchett just filled up his dually and called it. “The price of gas is a scam.” America buys zero oil from Iran. The gas in your tank right now was bought weeks ago at the old price. The oil is already in the pipeline. They raised your price anyway. “Prices go up like a rocket and come down with a parachute.”
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Tucked between a Nissan dealership and an electrical substation in Red Bank, New Jersey, there is a litter-strewn pond. People drive hundreds of miles to collect the water. Visitors report treating eczema, migraines, chronic fatigue, and gout. Some put it in vaporizers for lung ailments. One family brings it to a grandmother in hospice. Believers attribute the healing properties to the adjacent power station, which hums at 230 kilowatts around the clock. A shop owner in Woodbury, Connecticut sells it. All winter, while the pond was frozen, customers came in asking when it would be back. They call it Mohawk Magic. Is this satire or is it real? You will have to try it to find out for yourself.
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