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Incredible Slo-Mo Footage Of The Tiny Lightning Produced When You Crush A Wintergreen Lolly
Video: You may have heard the myth that biting into a Wint-O-Green Lifesavers produces visible sparks in a dark room. It’s hard to believe that a small lolly can produce its own lightning, but this incredible high-speed video by Smarter Every Day reveals it’s just simple science at work.
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A Super Slow Mo Rocket Launch Reveals A Spectacular Fireworks Show
Video: As fun as building your own 1.8m model rocket might be, launching it is nowhere near as impressive as watching one of NASA’s towering rockets blast into orbit — unless you point a high-speed camera at it. At 28,000 frames per second, a wonderful pyrotechnics show is revealed as it leaves the launch pad.
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Leg Waxing In Extreme Slow Motion Is Excruciating To Watch
Video: We already know that waxing any part of your body is extremely unpleasant. But the point is further driven home when you watch The Slow Mo Guys wax their own legs at 28,000 frames per second through the lens of a Phantom V2511 slo-mo camera. Living with hairy legs doesn’t seem so awful in…
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A Bowling Ball Dropped From 45 Metres Is No Match For An Axe
Video: The best science always involves explosions and destruction, and we probably would have paid closer attention to our teachers in primary school if they did experiments like this. While it’s probably easy to guess what happens when a bowling ball is dropped on an axe head from 45m, the slo-mo results are still far…