Onions make you cry because wen you cut the basal plate or shoot, they release an enzyme that reacts in the rest of the onion to release a gas. When that gas combines with water, it creates an acid, or in other words an eye irritant. Many people report that chewing gum helps avoid tears when cutting onions. That is just one of the many creative ways to solve problems you encounter in everyday life. Continue reading to see more.
Photo credit: Viktorjia Pashuta via My Modern Met
Viktorija Pashuta, a California-based photographer, decided to show what some of the most famous internet browsers might look like as fashion models. The photographer envisioned each browser with certain characteristics based on the styles of the popular symbols using real-life models Kaylen Dao, Brittany Ryan, Clancy McClain, Tracy Acholonu, and Polina Frantsena. Click here to view the first image in this week’s funny FAILS gallery. Continue reading for a viral video of a magical beard.
We know that hosting millions of videos costs Google an unimaginable amount of money each day, but a more fitting slogan for the company / service now, might be “skip the ad after five seconds”. We’ve rounded up a few more honest company slogans you might agree with for your viewing enjoyment. Continue reading to see them all.
Duct tape originated in 1942 Revolite, then a division of Johnson & Johnson, as an adhesive tape made from a rubber-based adhesive applied to a durable duck cloth backing. This tape resisted water and was used as sealing tape on ammunition cases during World War II. Here are some unusual and bizarre ways geeks use this tape. Click here to view the first image in today’s viral picture gallery. Continue reading for a viral video of a cat singing Journey’s Don’t Stop Believing.
Could a two-headed person actually exist, or was this picture just taken at the right time and angle? Of course the answer is the latter. One trick commonly incorporated in these images is forced perspective, which manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera. That is just one of the many perfectly timed photos that we’ve rounded up for you today. Continue reading to see them all.
Star Wars fanatics already know that Darth Vader initially ordered the modification of a freezing chamber on Bespin’s Cloud City so that he could freeze Luke Skywalker. However, it was first tried on Han Solo, who fortunately survived the freezing process through the use of a special device and was eventually freed from his trap. This refrigerator, based on that scene, could quite possibly be one of the geekiest ever. Click here to view the first image in this week’s demotivational poster gallery. Continue reading for a video of the T3-exclusive iPad Pro with 12.9-inch retina display.
For those who’ve tried to live up to their own expectations, failure is a common occurrence, but not really due to lack of activity, it’s just that things aren’t as easy as they initially seemed. First off, we have someone who thought getting a lizard-shaped haircut was smart. Continue reading to see more.
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Under the command of Edward Smith, the RMS Titanic’s passengers included some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere throughout Europe seeking a new life in North America. Continue reading to see more beautifully restored and colorized photos of the ship.
Not all full-time artists focus on realism, but for Mark Crilley, that is just one of his many talents. He started a video series that will have rubbing your eyes trying to figure out which object is real. Even more surprising, it doesn’t take him long at all to draw up a photo-realistic object. Continue reading to see more.
Most tech and internet geeks know that YouTube began as a venture-funded technology startup, primarily from a $11.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006, but what about using “k” key to pause videos? Continue reading to see more random and geeky facts you might not expect.