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Ringo Starr sat down with Dan Rather, reflecting upon his early years of music and how he came to be the drummer for The Beatles.

Explanation Avenue visually examined the intricate anatomy of spiders using a 3D animation of a black widow spider.

A spy mudskipper attempted to woo a mate using by waving its electronic fin and its leaping capabilities in a clip from "Spy in the Ocean'

A TED-Ed lesson explains how humans can learn from failure despite the paralyzing demoralization that comes with not achieving a goal.

A little toddler adorably followed the family's one-eyed tabby cat around the house and copied every move that the feline made.

Pablo Rocha built an amusing contraption that begins with a hot dog on wheels that evenutally makes a flying leap onto a barbecue grill.

Blackdot is an innovative robotic tattoo machine that applies intricate skin designs while minimizing the pain that often goes with the art.

Weird History tells the story of Giulia Tofana, who was responsible for the death of 600 men using her poisonous makeup in 17th century Italy.

Adam Culbertson lost his drone to a wild eagle, who snatched it out of the air as he was flying it through the mountains of Utah.

Rob Watts of RobWords explored the origins behind the naming of dinosaurs and what those names actually mean.

Mallory Crustashared interesting facts about Maine Coon cats, noting their long history and their distinctively American origins.

Noah LefevreofPolyphonic looked at the history of the electric guitar and the legendary solos that subsequently followed.

60 Second Docs profiled Alexa Meade, an artist who transforms people into 2D portraits by painting their bodies.

PBS' Otherwords digs into the vibrant etymological origins of toponyms (place names) behind different locations around the world.

Name Explain explained how each borough of New York City was named using simple, but clever animation to illustrate this colorful history.

A parakeet named Kiw uttered the phrase "Hey Siri" while sitting on his human's iPhone and talked about parakeets and chickens.

Jared Halley performed a multi-track cover of "Monster Mash" with his costumed 10 year old son Noah singing background and dancing.

A compassionate man in Istanbul came across 17 very hungry abandoned kittens and brought them home to live with him.

Sir Patrick Stewart recited the "Star Trek" opening soliloquy "Space...The Final Frontier" in a French accent on the "Graham Norton Show".

John Mayer skillfully worked Grateful Dead songs into his own material during an acoustic solo show in Chicago in October 2023.

How Ridley Scott's films capture hopeful order in a sea of elegant chaos over far swaths of time in the far ahead future and the distant past.

Great Big Story visited Kanyaboyina Sudhakar, a hobbyist in India who builds the most creative art cars imaginable.

CCTV caught the amazing sight of a white cat leaping across the room to rescue a black puppy who was being bullied by an aggressive corgi.

Adult Swim released a "Rick and Morty" mini-episode that tries to reconcile the timelines that were introduced over the past six seasons.

Insider Food visited the Filipino family who keeps up the tradition of making asin tibuok, a rare salt known as "The Dinosaur Egg".

Great Big Story visited with Jason Arday who, despite not reading/writing until the age of 18, became a professor at Cambridge University.

The Slow Mo Guys added explosives to a hand-cranked Chinese popcorn popper and captured the reaction in super slow motion.

A rescued pit bull named Mako, who thinks he's a cat, jumps onto counters and other high surfaces just like his feline siblings.

Dolly Parton performed a powerful cover of the 4 Non Blondes anthem "What's Up?" with songwriter Linda Perry on guitar and background vocals.

In an episode of "Mister Rogers Neighborhood", Bob Rawsthorne jammed on a stumpf fiddle in a musical trio with Mister Rogers on toy piano.

The 2023 Idents for UK's Channel 4 use the number 4 to open portals for viewers to virtually peek at what holds in store for the future.

PBS Eonslooks at the vast world that ants have created for themselves through evolutionary advances that took place over millions of years.

A corgi named Saki and a group of her corgi friends happily floated down down a a canal in adorable inflatable corgi rafts.

Staybeam cleverly combined the sound of a dialup modem handshake with 1996 footage of Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducting an orchestra.

Kate Micucci released an adorably amusing song about going shopping at the grocery store where she sings about what she's going to buy.

A beautiful elder tabby cat named Bella in Cambridgeshire, England set the Guinness World Record for loudest purr by a domestic cat.

German musician Gracia Pizzuto performs elegant covers of classic video themes on piano giving them a fuller sound.

West Harlem resident LizWaytkus takes care of the feral cat colony that lives on a vacant lot at 142nd Street and Riverside Drive.

A dextrous little sea otter helpfully gathered colorful cones from the water and placed them on the side of the pool next to her human.

There's a post on a sidewalk in Philadelphia leaning at an angle that is painted to look like the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa.

JP Botelho cleverly constructed a machine that quickly unbends twisted or bent rebar into a straight line, making it ready to be used again.

Half-Asleep Chrisbuilt a nifty treehouse using a dug-out tree for a catio that he built for his beloved catsRalphandBella.

Postmodern Jukebox and singer/clarinetist Chloe Feoranzo performed a bouncy 1920s jazz cover of the Depeche Mode song "Enjoy the Silence".

A compilation of the intros to "Die Muppet Show", the German-dubbed version of The Muppet Show which ran from 1977-1982.

Captain Pikantdove into the percussive history of the Roland TR-808 drum machine with 16 examples of its wide influence across music.

The BBC Archive compiled decades of footage showing moral panic over new things that were perceived as a threat to the status quo.

Legal Lullabies is an amusing website that reads aloud the respective terms of service for either Instagram or TikTok.

An orange tabby named Cheeto cleverly lured Larry the English mastiff into his gated pen, shut the door and escaped through the slats.

A little orange tabby creamsicle cat named Marlin, who loves to go swimming in the ocean, thinks that he's more dog than cat.

The ROV Hercules, encountered the ghostly sight of a tiny bioluminescent octopus floating around on the midnight zone sea floor.