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An ocular TED-Ed lesson by Thomas W. Cronin explains which animals have the best eyesight for specific purposes to best suit their needs.

History Matters takes a brief look at why so many countries contain the name Guinea, focusing on the origins and history of the name.

Know Your Meme has put together a colorfully animated visual timeline that charts the most popular memes of 2021.

Odd Tinkering quite skillfully restored a vintage Coca-Cola six-pack container from World War II using Diet Coke to remove the rust.

Rare footage shows Jeffrey Hyman (Joey Ramone) performing with his pre-Ramones band Sniper on "The Underground Tonight Show" in 1973.

Great Art Explained looks at how Freud's work with dreams influenced the iconic Salvador Dalí painting "The Persistence of Memory".

Legendary musicians Les Paul and Mary Ford showed 'Omnibus' host Alistair Cooke how they record multi-track songs at home in 1953.

Determined guinea pigs at the Sequoia Park Zoo adorably formed a single line and marched off to bed on an elevated wooden platform.

An incredible video of workers bending and twisting pieces of wood as if they were soft like noodles.

"The Hydra" by Steve Vai is a triple neck instrument with a 12-string, a half-fretless bass, a seven-string guitar, and an electric harp.

A fighter with World Taekwondo performed an amazing horizontal spinning kick that rotated 720° and broke four targets at once.

DrivingSkill shared an extremely vertiginous video of a driving expert making a precarious U-Turn on the side of a very narrow mountain road.

Bryan Braun created a fun, interactive DIY Music Box that creates songs in the same note-by-note manner as vintage hand-cranked music boxes.

Musician Sammy Haig amusingly put the bell of his trumpet into a bowl of red Jell-O and began to play with interesting results.

A tiny eagle chick was hand-fed through the beak of an eagle puppet head in order to maintain limited human contact.

Science vlogger Steve Mould took apart a children's toy to see how a strategically placed magnet in a mirror makes a ballerina spin.

You Can't Unhear This takes a look at the mysterious voice that appears in "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", The Beatles' last recorded song.

Cheddar News takes a look at how the three major airports of New York City are evolving to handle increasingly complex air traffic.

Journey to the Microcosmos shared footage of tiny Cnidarians known as moerisia that look like jellyfish when seen through a macro lens.

John DiMarco put together an incredible video compilation that shows how the Star Trek warp speed jump has evolved from 1979 through 2021.

Real Big Boys enjoyed a picnic in a park where they had a conversation using clever wordplay of dad jokes and literal definitions of synonyms.

BBC Earth shares how they were able to bring static plants to life on camera for "The Green Planet" with the use of timelapse photography.

Serj Tankian of System of a Down joined the Foo Fighters onstage to perform the Dead Kennedys classic "Holiday in Cambodia" at the 2007 VMAs.

An oddly satisfying video of lemons on a conveyer belt having stickers applied to them by mechanical stickering devices.

Heavy metal musician Seth Everman sat behind his drum kit and listened to ABBA for the very first time, playing along to the song "Mama Mia".

Pilots making smooth landings at Tenzing–Hillary Airport in Nepal, an incredibly dangerous airport due to its high altitude and short runway.

The great Jeff Goldblum sat down with Vanity Fair to honestly assess various impressions of himself as done by different people.

A trio of German shepherds named Jade, Jasper, and Jet adorably reviewed the different types of food that their humans put in front of them.

The Beat Goes On offers a very cheerful yet brief history of the legendary rock band, Led Zeppelin over the course of 24 minutes.

Food vlogger Adam Ragusea explains why Americans don't pronounce the "h" in the word "herbs" while people who speak British English do.

A robotic spy hippopotamus by John Downer Productions swam over to a pod of wild hippos in Africa to get rare footage of the fierce species.

America's Test Kitchen offered several handy solutions for opening a bottle of beer when there isn't a bottle opener to be found.

A kitten named Indy takes care of a cat named Pip with cerebellar abiotrophy, a neurological disease that affects his mobility.

LEGO put together a calming ASMR video that shows how their iconic Minifigures are made behind the scenes.

Artist on the Border restored and colorized classic footage of Pink Floyd performing "Apples and Oranges on "American Bandstand" in 1967.

Jessa of Hyperbolium created a visual MIDI piano score that plays a unique sound for each state in the United States.

Burl of Burl's Art teamed up with ocean cleaners 4Ocean in South Florida where he dived to gather plastic trash to build a gorgeous guitar.

Guitarist Andre Antunes performed a distinctive heavy metal soundtrack to a compilation of Gordon Ramsay's tirades on "Hell's Kitchen".

Film editor Rick88888888 restored rare historical footage that shows the construction of the iconic Empire State Building in 1930.

The LAVA ME 3 is a lightweight carbon fiber smart guitar with a built-in digital display and apps for effects, looping, and practice.

Legendary artist and trendsetter Andy Warhol made an unlikely appearance In the ninth season of the 1980s hit TV show "The Love Boat".

Urban gardeners Phoenix and Shalaco use spice shakers to spread native wildflower seeds across San Francisco while dressed as bees.

An optical ED-Ed lesson written by Emma Bryce and animated by Iván Tamás explains why cat eyes have vertical pupils.

Glider pilot Stefan Langer made an incredibly smooth landing in the rain at the airfield past the Italian town of Pavullo nel Frignano.

A trio of playful sea otters at the Oregon Zoo splashed around in three big gray tubs filled with water that had yummy treats at the bottom.

Andrea Boccarusso created "History of Metal", a musical performance of different metal styles through the decades to the present day.

Kevin Pang spoke with NASA Astronaut Megan McArthur about how food is prepared while aboard the International Space Station.

Industrial Light & Magic shows how they created the marvelous visual effects for the Marvel Studios series "Loki ".

Wingsuit pilots Fred Fugen, Vincent Cotte, and Mike Swanson captured magnificent GoPro footage of the Pyramids of Giza while flying close by.

The Open Reel Ensemble sat around a warm kotatsu to play an abstract reel-to-reel "instrumental" song that celebrates the new year.