Laughing Squid

Sam Denby of Half as Interesting explains how NYC's water supply begins with six upstate reservoirs and an 85-mile underground aqueduct.

Walmart is selling an adorable plush pink octopus costume for infants that lets the child's feet dangle behind the very prominent tentacles.

A little orange cat named Pugsley Adams and a tiny colorful love bird named Chicken are the best of inseparable friends.

Musician Luke Million performed a nostalgic medley of classic songs from the 1980s completely on an array of different synthesizers.

Engineer and musician Vladimir Demin created an incredible robotic self-player for acoustic guitar that can perform songs upon command.

Oliver Street amusingly connected the tube for his melodica to a hair dryer to perform a high-pitched cover of Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee".

Chinese balancing artist Wang Yekun demonstrated his remarkable ability to stack various items in seemingly inconceivable positions.

Lyuba and Max of Krukrustudio crafted clever handmade leather bags that look like classic gas cans that come in either red or black.

Chris Reynolds put together an amazing video playlist with every alternative music video that was played on the classic MTV series 120 Minutes.

The wonderfully compassionate people at Flatbush Cats are raising funds to build an affordable spay neuter clinic in Brooklyn.

Tom Scott visited the USPS Remote Encoding Center in Salt Lake City to learn how they deal with mail addressed in unreadable handwriting.

Rob Watts of RobWords discussed different nouns that are exceptions to the standard pluralizing rule in English of adding an "s".

Engineer Sergii Gordieiev of The Q constructed a mid-century modern house aquarium for his pet fish with a BMW in the garage.

North of the Border sculpted a seemingly adorable yet chilling scene of Cookie Monster gleefully devouring terrified gingerbread men.

Geoff Castellucci performed a low bass, a cappella cover of "Rains of Castamere" from Game of Thrones while sitting on an Iron Throne.

Lord Vinheteiro performed Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" using only one finger on a keyboard that appeared to move automatically.

CGP Grey explains the purpose and the design of those seemingly random airport runway digits that are usually only seen out of a plane window.

Herbie Hancock appeared on "Sesame Street" in 1983 to give a demonstration of his new Fairlight CMI Synthesizer to Maria and The Kids.

Giggster helps people find and list unique venues in intriguing locations for film, television, photo shoots, and private events by the hour.

MayTree performed a buoyant A Cappella cover of the iconic instrumental theme for the British children's television show Thomas & Friends.

Incredibly talented percussionist Steve Smith broke down his incredible drumming for the Journey song "Separate Ways".

Action Movie Kid built a realistic yet safe flamethrower toy for his children using a leaf blower and flame-colored silk.

The Cana One is an innovative beverage printer that builds hundreds of customizable drinks on a molecular level using a single cartridge.

Ch.60 remastered and enhanced footage of the racing scenes from the 1966 Oscar-winning film "Grand Prix" in 60 fps HD.

Researcher Maggie Hirschauer of MPG Ranch talks about her quest to learn more about the monarch butterfly population in western Montana.

FINIS has built an automatic onion-peeling machine that easily removes the core and tail, which sets the vegetable in place to be skinned by air.

Zack's Explainers takes a look a the copious amount of eggs available in US grocery stores and explains what their labels really mean.

A superhero-themed episode from February 1980 shows Mister Rogers leaving his neighborhood to visit the set of the show "The Incredible Hulk".

Mark Hamill worked the drive-thru window at a Jack in the Box, where he previously worked as a teen and was fired for talking like a clown.

Glen Makes recycled an old IKEA table into a "Star Wars" inspired workbench with a Droid power port.

Magnetic Games performed a piece of Synthwave magnetic music written by Magnetic Tricks using their own magnetic creations.

Technology Connections took a humorously forthright look at different models of typewriters to understand how their correction features work.

A diver with Scuba Ventures captured stunning footage of a rare jellyfish with a body like a beach ball off the coast of Papua New Guinea.

Curator Anna Dhody gives an informative tour of The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, featuring a unique collection of medical specimens.

RobWords explained why some countries describe the long purple nightshade as an eggplant while others refer to it as an aubergine.

Cat behavior expert JoAnna Puzzo of Battersea Dogs & Cats Home analyized the feline-centered video game Stray.

Sara Grdan and Ivan Terrazas of Feral Tango performed an alluring tango set to the classic Eminem song "Lose Yourself".

The Language of Earth shared a fascinating demonstration showing the differences between English, German, Dutch, and Afrikaans.

Joseph's Machines built a complex Rube Goldberg machine with hammers and a rubber chicken to pass wine across a really long table.

Linguist Rob Watts of RobWords shared three very useful tips that logically explain how to translate certain French words into English.

Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura of 'Star Trek") starred in a 1977 NASA film to recruit new astronauts for the Space Shuttle Enterprise program.

John DiMarco compiled footage from "Star Trek", the first six films, and "The Animated Series" to pay loving respect to Nichelle Nichols.

A shy, rescued cat named Bao Zi really came into her own when she found out that, unlike many fellow felines, she loves being in the water

Before she played Uhura in Star Trek, Nichelle Nichols had a small but powerful role on a 1964 episode of Gene Roddenberry's "The Lieutenant".

Daft Punk released a look inside the making of the iconic music video for their 1997 hit "Around the World", directed by Michel Gondry.

A pair of golden retrievers named Tucker Todd quite amusingly jumped over painter's tape strips placed at increasingly difficult heights.

Joseph Quinn met Metallica backstage at Lollapalooza, where they played Eddie Munson's favorite song 'Master of Puppets" together.

Morgan Donner modeled 500 years of hairstyles, starting with the year 1500 and moving forward century by century.

"Where We Arrived" is a thoughtful documentary about artists Takuya and Minami Yoshida, who left Tokyo for the country.

"Knitting the Neighborhood" is a handy book that shows how to knit several iconic pieces from "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood".