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Forging a Sword for Conor McGregor

Forging a Sword for Conor McGregor

MMA fighter and businessman Conor McGregor asked That Works to create a sword to celebrate his Forged Irish Stout. Matt Stagmer and Steve House from Moonshine Metalworks created this two-handed Irish Claymore, inspired by the sword on the beer can but with many added details. The etched slashes on the blade are the McGregor name in ancient Celtic.

Korn. In a Can: Still Coming Undone

Korn. In a Can: Still Coming Undone
Korn tries to hold it together and comes out of left field with this mashup of Coming Undone and Portugal. The Man’s Feel It Still. Remixer Bill McClintock deftly melds two musical genres into an earworm of a track that had us dancing at our desks. And just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, Tony Iommi turns up with a guitar solo.
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Mercedes G-Wagons Do G-Turns

Mercedes G-Wagons Do G-Turns

Some electric vehicles can turn on a dime thanks to independent electric motors at each wheel. Mercedes-Benz showed off the 2025 Mercedes EQG (aka Electric G-Class) by having four of the SUVs perform the so-called “G-Turn” spin on the Las Vegas strip. While real-world use for a 360º turn is limited to maneuvering in tight spaces, it’s a fun party trick.

Zack Snyder’s Star Wars: Part 1 – A New Hope

Zack Snyder’s Star Wars: Part 1 – A New Hope

Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon wouldn’t exist without Star Wars. In fact, it started out as a script he pitched to Lucasfilm. But what if the filmmaker got to make an actual Star Wars movie? Auralnauts pokes fun at Snyder’s tendency to drag things out with slow-motion, grandiose music, and gloomy color filters with the unofficial Snyder cut of A New Hope.

Making Millions of Screws

Making Millions of Screws

There aren’t many products that can be made by the millions, but hardware like screws are one such item. This video from SatisFactory Process takes us inside a facility in China that cranks out mass quantities of screws every day. Machines straighten coils of steel wire, cut, shape, then thread the screws before they’re heat-treated for strength and washed.

20th Century Slang Terms

20th Century Slang Terms

If you can believe it, it’s been nearly 25 years since the 20th century ended. While we still use some slang terms from the era, others like “automobubble,” “skunky,” and “zozzled” have long since left our lexicon. Mental Floss looks back at slang of the 20th century in hopes we might start using some of these again. We still use “scofflaw” all the time.

Ice Carving Time-Lapse

Ice Carving Time-Lapse

Ryan Cook is a master at carving sculptures with his chainsaw and hand tools. Most of his works are in wood, but he made this amazing sculpture of a toucan out of ice. He carved the intricate bird from a single block of ice and finished the entire bird in just two hours. We can’t decide if the crystal clear beak or the feathers are our favorite part.

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Nathan Lane + Matthew Broderick Salute Mel Brooks

Nathan Lane + Matthew Broderick Salute Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks is a comedy legend. To celebrate his many contributions, he received an honorary Oscar at the Academy’s Governor’s Awards, and Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane presented the award. Along the way, they roasted Brooks, and like any good musical, they burst into song with a medley of some of Mel’s best songs.

The Quarry

The Quarry

Graham Mason’s silly animated short is basically what would happen if Dunder-Mifflin was a rock quarry, and the office staff was made up entirely of rocks. Instead of Jim and Pam, we get a duo of blobby boulders with a similarly charming and challenged work-personal relationship. Created for Adult Swim Smalls.

Toy-sized Andy’s Room from Toy Story

Toy-sized Andy’s Room from Toy Story

The Mundo Pixar exhibit in São Paulo, Brazil, included a replica of Andy’s room from Toy Story, scaled up to make visitors feel like they’re the toys. The room featured larger-than-life furniture, books, blocks, and human-size figures of Woody and Buzz Lightyear. This video is special because it shows the room before the crowds took over.

What If the Earth Suddenly Stopped Spinning?

What If the Earth Suddenly Stopped Spinning?

You might not feel it, but the Earth is spinning quite quickly. Depending on your latitude, you could be going more than 1000 MPH. xkcd’s What If? explores what might happen if, all of a sudden, the planet stopped spinning and the atmosphere kept going. Things wouldn’t bode well for living creatures or structures, thanks to the extreme wind and waves.

Synth Sounds of the ’90s

Synth Sounds of the ’90s

CLMC Music takes us on a trip back to the 1990s with a medley of synthesizer riffs from hit tracks of the era. His performance packs in familiar bits of 18 tunes from bands like C+C Music Factory, Snap, Eiffel 65, Haddaway, Technotronic, and MC Hammer. If this doesn’t get you dancing at your desk, nothing will.

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Marching Band Cornering Technique

Marching Band Cornering Technique

When marching bands reach a corner, they typically need a wide berth to fit everyone side by side. But the Ohio State University Marching Band turns tight corners with style. Watch as dozens of band members maneuver into a narrow point, then fan back out as they come around the bend. Here’s what a normal turn looks like at that same corner.

How AA Batteries Are Made

How AA Batteries Are Made

Zinc carbon batteries are the cheapest kind of batteries you can buy. Alkaline and lithium batteries last longer, but that doesn’t make this factory video any less fascinating. Miracle Process took their cameras inside a Chinese factory that uses an army of machines to crank out millions of zinc-carbon batteries each year. Turn on captions.

Four Interesting Uses for AI Tech

Four Interesting Uses for AI Tech

The use of artificial intelligence to generate and manipulate images has had its share of controversy, but recent technological advancements are still amazing. Two Minute Papers explores four very different ways to use AI: making still images dance, compressing video conferencing, upscaling video resolution, and making software that can identify smells.

Visualizing Every Earthquake Over Time

Visualizing Every Earthquake Over Time

According to the National Earthquake Information Center, there are roughly 20,000 earthquakes around the Earth every year. This fascinating animation from the NOAA, NWS, and Pacific Tsunami Warning Center shows every earthquake and tsunami recorded from January 1901 through December 2020. There’s also a spherical version that ends in 2000.

World’s Largest Pinball Factory

World’s Largest Pinball Factory

Ten years ago, we visited Stern Pinball in a small suburban Chicago factory that made up to 100 pinball machines a day. Since then, interest in pinball has grown substantially, and they’ve moved twice. Between the two buildings of their new factory, they now have almost 250,000 square feet of space and are the largest pinball factory in the world.

Making Toy Horses from Plastic

Making Toy Horses from Plastic

This factory in Pakistan cranks out thousands of toy horses a day. The process starts by grinding up plastic scraps from the prior day’s work and melting them, then using that to blow-mold the horse’s body. Workers then attach accessories and mold and cut out the wheels before final assembly. It’s not the most modern factory line, but they get the job done.

Carving a City from Stone

Carving a City from Stone

One look at Jadokar’s Instagram page, and it’s obvious he’s a talented artist. While most of his work is illustrated, in this video, he proves he knows a thing or two about sculpture. Watch as he transforms a hunk of sandstone into an ancient cityscape packed with arched windows, doorways, and tiny staircases.

Making a Nintendo PlayStation

Making a Nintendo PlayStation

In 1994, Sony and Nintendo collaborated on an unreleased video game console that birthed the PlayStation name. While there is a rare prototype of the system, James Channel thought it would be fun to build his own. His Frankenstein’s monster of a console has the body of a Super Famicom, the brains of a PlayStation, and a sketchy exposed CD-ROM drive.

Making Iron Man’s Self-Healing Armor

Making Iron Man’s Self-Healing Armor

Iron Man had armor that was able to fix itself after a fight. JLaservideo took a stab at making real-world armor pieces that heal themselves after being heated, thanks to Nitinol – a nickel-titanium alloy with the ability to return to a programmed shape after being bent. The material is expensive and hard to work with, but Tony Stark could afford it.

How to Cut Corners

How to Cut Corners

You can cut pieces of wood to meet perfectly in a corner using a miter saw. But there are other scenarios where you need to work around things that make it more challenging. Entertainer Chaz Bruce re-shared this video of carpenters dealing with tricky corners while he and his son reacted to the cuts. That four-way pipe joint was so satisfying.

Making a Mood Ring Car

Making a Mood Ring Car

Ali Spagnola thought making her car change colors like a gigantic mood ring would be fun. So she sprayed it with thermochromic liquid crystal paint. This stuff doesn’t show if she’s happy or sad but instead reacts to changes in temperature. If you’re wondering what those discs are on her car, they’re the 9,000 PopSockets she attached in a previous video.

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