More than one quarter of the translators working alongside American soldiers in Afghanistan failed language proficiency exams but were sent onto the battlefield anyway, according to a former employee of the company that holds contracts worth up to $1...

Now here are some digger skills. A digger climbs into a railcar unload crushed rock.
http://www.youtube.com/v/Q1CMSV81_ws?fs=1&hl=en_US
Coca Cola made some advertisements claiming that their product was safe for babies and children. However the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said they were telling lies and had to stop the adverts and tell the truth.
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The publicity...

Moral: Be careful where you are doing sit-ups. What can I say, you just have to watch it. Cat 1 Human 0
http://www.youtube.com/v/qY8aih_-CTY?fs=1&hl=en_US

Sometimes ants following the scent of other ants get locked in a never ending circle called a circular mill. The circle of ants, each one following the ant in front, may continue until they all die.
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Sometimes they escape though. Beebe (1921) des...
Archeologists recently unearthed a burial site in Turkey containing the bodies of 60 Roman gladiators. Tests to their remains led researchers to conclude that the gladiators all ate an exclusively-plant-based diet. In fact, they used the word \"vegan...
Two teens with a bad case of \'don\'t give a damn\' bumble their way onto the stage of X factor. After insulting the judges, and singing appallingly one punches the other in the face.
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http://www.liveleak.com/e/48a_1283792509

A German bomber that never made it to the coast during the Battle of Britain - shot down on Aug. 26, 1940 - has been found again.
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\"Sidescan geophysical sonar survey showed that the Dornier 17, known as \'The Flying Pencil\', is very well preserv...
The traffic stop happened about 7 a.m. Wednesday on a stretch of Wyoming 28 in southwestern Wyoming, according to a Wyoming Highway Patrol media release.
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Two men in the car were arrested, the patrol said, after troopers found trace amounts of mar...
This great video is a performance by a group called Fascinating Aida singing about their experiences with trying to get a cheap flight over the Internet. Its great!
http://www.youtube.com/v/ZAg0lUYHHFc?fs=1&hl=en_US

Whatever he has done he seems pretty happy with himself and I guess that the main objective. However the drugs, or injections taken to create those fake muscles can\'t do him any good.
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The droop in the biceps give an indication of injections of l...

The shotgun for the 21st century looks a darn big thing to carry around. A fascinating video showing the shotgun in action and how it works - amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/v/p4ebtj1jR7c
David Beresford sheds light on the 1982 bombing of the Koeberg nuclear plant outside Cape Town
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It must have been the most audacious act of sabotage carried out by one man. And yet the Truth and Reconciliation Commission devoted just 14 words to i...

Members of Thai special police unit carry their weapons as they ride motorcycles during an exercise in Yala province, about 1,084 km (674 miles) south of Bangkok August 26, 2010.
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The troubled rubber-rich provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat...

After delivering U.S. Soldiers and Iraq dignitaries to their final destinations, Crew Chief Sgt. Fred Oser, A. Company 2-25, Combat Aviation Brigade, attached to 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, dismounts the 240 Bravo Machine...
\"We are trying to get Axl back on stage kindly refrain from throwing things at him\"
The crowd shows its extreme disapproval.
http://www.youtube.com/v/e9IEjFlN8MA?fs=1&hl=en_US
A collection of surfing videos of surfers on huge waves. Some really great shots. You really get into cheering them on.
http://www.youtube.com/v/jcI2S5WPBNc
http://www.youtube.com/v/Ry7DvtXM6qI
Great video extract from the movie Network that reflects current manipulations in the US media world.
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In one impassioned diatribe, Beale galvanizes the nation with his rant, \"I\'m as mad as hell, and I\'m not going to take this anymore!\" and pe...

An amazing abandoned Tesla power station. This is a Russian high-voltage scientific research institute. All the devices in the pictures are super high voltage testing facilities, mostly intended to test the machines and devices (planes, scientific.....
F18 drops a dummy bomb, which flies up and hits a Skyhawk chase plane. Includes in-flight camera views. Amazingly the pilots of the Skyhawk survive.
http://www.youtube.com/v/8aLRNQrfIXc
This showdown between mammal and reptile sees an Indian gray mongoose taking on one of the world\'s most poisonous snakes - a king cobra.
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The pair warily circle each other looking for a weak spot, before the snake strikes in rapid succession at i...

Zhou Guizhen, who is 86-years-old, shows one of her bound feet where the bones in the four small toes were broken and forced underneath the foot over a period of time, at her home in Liuyi village in China\'s southern Yunnan Province, February 2007. ...

This video shows a boat colliding with a bridge. Afterwords the boat catches fire, which must have been the end of it.
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http://www.youtube.com/v/AwitV6VWUYU&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0
What is crazy about thi...

Two hundred years ago, Ascension Island was a barren volcanic edifice. Today, its peaks are covered by lush tropical \"cloud forest\". What happened in the interim is the amazing story of how the architect of evolution, Kew Gardens and the Royal Navy...

This is an actual classified ad as it appeared in The Financial Post in Toronto, Canada, February 23, 2001. The employment seeker received over 600 responses. Nice going :)
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Having successfully completed a 10-year sentence, incident free, f...