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The Simpsons is the longest running sitcom in TV history. Their design, personalities and even their voices have changed dramatically through 25 years on the air. We just didn’t notice day after day, just like we forgot about many obscure and interesting factoids. So obscure that, unless you’re a truly obsessive Simpsons’ fan, you won’t…
OK, this stupidly risky stunt seems even more idiotic and suicidal when you watch it up close and from his point of view. That snow mound didn’t seem soft at all. Just look at the painful face of his idiot when he walks away. According to local media, the teenager declared to the police that…
Here’s the first official main trailer for Godzilla, and man oh man is it a thriller. Buckle your seatbelts for some epic destruction. With soundscapes that evoke sci-fi greats like Pacific Rim and 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Bryan Cranston’s borderline-madman narration giving us a hint of the plotline, this two-and-a-half minute peek shows that…
Wolf eels are pretty ugly in general, but this one—this one is the one that the rest of the wolf eels make fun of in school. I’ve seen baboons’ butts that are more attractive than this guy. Look at the complete photo by Chris Wilson and try not to puke all over this thing. Actually,…
The space tire is sitting useless most of the time in the trunk of all cars, but in the 50s a California inventor thought it could be put to good use to easily park cars in parallel. Why the hell didn’t this invention become standard in every single car? No wonder you went bankrupt, Detroit!…
Pyro Boy fired 2500 rockets simultaneously at the 2014 Western Winter Blast in Arizona, which apparently is a really challenging proposition and, obviously, a lot of goddamn fun too. With an effect like this, it’s really hard to get all of the rockets to launch at once. Some of them jam, some of them fall…
No propaganda can hide the stark contrast between South Korea and North Korea as seen from orbit. A buzzing megalopolis and a bright constellation of cities versus a sea of nothingness and a capital that looks miserable despite the fact that it houses 3.26 million people. According to NASA, “the light emission from Pyongyang is…
Different cultures, different food. Different folks, different strokes. Different armies, same soul evaporating packaged foods for army rations. Okay, that’s not exactly fair. Some countries obviously have it better than others (I’m looking at you France) but at the end of the day, most armies around the world are eating out of pouches and cans…
It’s not fair. Time lapses and fancy cameras get these fantastic images of star trails that paint a starry night onto the sky and yet when we look up, we see nothing. Even when the stars are glistening, we don’t get to see the mesmerizing hook of its trail spinning around us. Wouldn’t it be…
Wow. This incredible video of aerial combat in World War II has it all. And all of it is terrifying. From dog fights and kamikaze attacks to flak fire and carpet bombing to explosions and aerial combat, it captures the frantic frenzy of aerial warfare during WWII. It’s better than any movie because it actually…
Well that was unexpected. Meet Mel. She’s an intimidating punk rocker who has a hot pink mohawk, more piercings than she can count and has never found a studded leather jacket she’s never worn before. And then meet Mel again after her made for TV makeover. Who is the better Mel? The makeover was done…
Here’s a tiny kitten so happy to eat that he wiggles his ears out of pure enjoyment—or something—like Gizmo the mogwai. Apparently, animals moving their ears when they feel pleasure is a thing. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
On the left, Abraham Lincoln in 1858 during his campaign for the Senate of Illinois, just three years before becoming President of the United States. On the right, President Lincoln in 1865, just before his assassination. It’s only seven years, but it looks like two decades. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join…
Harold Ramis is dead. He directed and co-wrote Groundhog Day, one of my favorite movies. I’ve seen it so many times that I know most of the dialogs by heart. Rest in peace. https://gizmodo.com/r-i-p-harold-ramis-the-man-who-gave-us-ghostbusters-a-1529839951
Unless you’re living it up in California right now—full disclosure: I am—this winter has been particularly relentless. Is there hope beyond the cold and snow and slush? Yes indeedy. But it might take a minute, so in the meantime here are some beautiful GIFs of flowers blooming. Yeah yeah, watching petals unfold is a little…
The cured pork meat and fat sausages above—a type of thin salchichón called fuet in Catalonia, Spain—are truly delicious, with a wonderfully intense umami flavor. They are also excellent for your health, as good as having a yogurt, because they are full of probiotics. Oh, they are also made with poop. Baby poop. I know,…
Believe it or not, this guy is not human. It’s part of what may be the coolest toy in the world, which costs as much as a car. It’s a small robot pilot inside a remote controlled fighter jet, one of the coolest and most realistic models I’ve seen in the most important RC jet…
Colin Legg caught an amazing thing on camera a couple days ago. In the cobalt-colored sky above Australia, this amateur astrophotographer managed to capture the exact moment that the moon passed in front of Saturn. Did you know you could see those rings from so far away? The event itself is known as an occultation.…
Seriously. Watching this awesome machine bend wires in different shapes puts my brain into deep hipnotoad mode. The manufacturer claims it is the fastest wire bending machine in the world. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but it’s unreal. How the hell does this thing work? SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…
Cross section, cutaway, or x-ray illustrations, call it whatever you want, but they’re the best way to understand how things work. They are fascinating. In this new Sploid series we will present some of the best cutaway drawings from around the world. The first collection includes 32 awesome spacecrafts. Do you have any spacecraft cutaway…
