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Toys 'R' Us 1990s
Ever wish you could relive the Toys ‘R’ Us experience from the 1990s? If so, this recently uncovered video from From the day before Thanksgiving in 1991, shot at a New York City Toys ‘R’ Us store, should do the trick. This particular Herald Square location, located at 34th Street and 6th Avenue in Manhattan, was shuttered in the late 90s in response to the Times Square flagship store opening a few years later. Whether it be customers browsing the video game section for brand new Nintendo Game Boy consoles or classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures, you’ll see it here.

Photographer Selfie 20-Years
Photo credit: Peta Pixel
Photographer Noah Kalina captured a self portrait every day for the past 20 year, starting on January 11, 2000. This project began long before the concept of a “selfie” became popular, which meant he had to use cameras with flippable viewfinders so he could see himself before snapping each photo. To date, he’s missed just 27 out of 7,305 days, along with a handful of images from August 2003 that were lost in a hard drive crash.

Noble Gases Neo Electricity
Ever wonder what happens when a noble gas meets electricity? This video should answer that question. Why does this happen? Well, all noble gases conduct electricity and light up when a current runs through them. They are odorless, colorless and monatomic (exist as individual atoms) and due to its relative inertness, neon does not form any known stable compounds in nature. Read more for the clip and additional information.

Iodine Starch Reaction
For most, this experiment is nothing new or special, but many don’t know that the iodine test is used to test for the presence of starch. It’s a simple, yet fascinating experiment, where starch turns into an intense “blue-black” color upon adding aqueous solutions of the triiodide anion, due to the formation of an intermolecular charge-transfer complex. Without the presence starch, the brown color of the aqueous solution remains. This interaction between starch and triiodide is also the basis for iodometry. Read more for the clip and additional information.

Harrier Landing Aircraft Carrier
The McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II is a single-engine ground-attack aircraft capable of vertical or short takeoff and landing (V/STOL). It’s primarily employed on light attack or multi-role missions, and used by the United States Marine Corps (USMC), the Spanish Navy, and the Italian Navy. This second-generation Harrier Jump Jet are expected to be replaced by the Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II some time during 2025. Read more to see what the vertical landing looks like from the cockpit of another aircraft.

Armored Truck Money Spill
This scene appears to be straight from a movie, but it’s real, and a host of drivers were all parked alongside highway I-285 on Tuesday evening in metro Atlanta trying to grab as much cash as they can. Dunwoody police Sgt. Robert Parsons said the armored car crew estimated the loss to be around $175,000, when the vehicle’s side door accidentally swung open. The drivers may have felt lucky initially, but now some are slowly returning the money to avoid any possible criminal charges. Read more for the footage and additional information,

Plymouth Barracuda Chrysler Hemi Engine Suzuki GSX-R
It’s not everyday that you see a Plymouth Hemi Cuda, much less one pit against a motorcycle, but that’s exactly what went down at a local dragstrip. A standard 1970 Hemi Cuda is powered by a 7.0-liter Hemi V8 engine generating 425 horsepower and 490 pound-feet of torque, but this green monster boasts a supercharged and / or NOS version that’s producing 925 horsepower. Is it enough to beat a modified Suzuki GSX-R1000? Well, the 500-pound bike does make 157 hp and 77 Nm of torque. Read more for the video and additional information.

Light Super Slow Motion
National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) and CalTech researchers have developed T-CUP, the world’s fastest camera, and it’s capable of capturing ten trillion (1013) frames per second (fps), thus making it possible to literally freeze time to see phenomena – and even light – in extremely slow motion. The Slow Mo Guys met up with postdoctoral scholar Peng Wang to capture the speed of light at 10 trillion frames per second, so they diluted the water with a small amount of milk, in which the camera then records the beam of light as it travels across a few millimeters of that diluted milk.

Galactic Center Milky Way Galaxy
We may not live to visit the galactic center of the Milky Way Galaxy, but thanks to data collected by the Chandra X-ray observatory, this ultra-high-definition visualization should definitely whet your appetite. NASA’s Ames supercomputer was used to render the data as a virtualization you can experience straight from your web browser. “This visualization shows the effects of massive stellar giants blowing off powerful winds in the region around the Galaxy’s supermassive black hole,” said NASA. Read more for the clip and additional information.